[Tilesathome] Render niceness

[Knut Arne Bjørndal]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 12:21:43PM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote:
> "David Lynch" <djlynch at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I know that there's work ongoing to try to improve the speed of the
> > optimization of tiles, but as a more temporary measure, I've modified
> > the script on my local machine to use separate niceness values for
> > rendering and optimizing, and running the optimizing at a higher
> > priority than the rendering (nice -n5 for optimizing, nice -n10 for
> > rendering) seems to have sped things up substantially. I can commit
> > this to SVN if the group is interested, but I wanted to check with
> > everyone first, especially the server folks, to make sure that the
> > possible increase in upload frequency wouldn't be a problem.
> 
> I would wait for Knut to merge in his rasterizer.

One thing I'm doing in my branch is changing how nice is done, because
it was too stupid to add that nice line to every single external
command invocation when it's enough to set it once and let it be
inherited.

Might make it a bit harder to do this change though.

-- 
Knut Arne Bjørndal
aka Bob Kåre
bob+osm at cakebox.net
bobkare at irc
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature
Size: 4167 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tilesathome/attachments/20081001/57d3ce62/attachment.bin>