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PixInsight => Wish List => Topic started by: dmcclain on 2015 December 21 12:15:30

Title: Multi-Tasking in PI?
Post by: dmcclain on 2015 December 21 12:15:30

You have an absolutely, breathtakingly, wonderful system developed in PI! I can't say enough good about it.

But I often find myself wishing I could pull up and examine an image or two while the system is busy preprocessing a new stack of images. I don't wish to steal too many cycles from the computation going on, but during idle pauses my mind begins to wonder about various things I had seen in a previous result.

Title: Re: Multi-Tasking in PI?
Post by: ser1993 on 2016 January 20 03:32:20

I totally agree with you. And of course have the possibility to open two project on the same time to check something. Pixinsight need to be a little bit more "open" in this way. Our machines are very powerful so I think even during deconvolution we can check something or make color balance on an other image.

Title: Re: Multi-Tasking in PI?
Post by: Juan Conejero on 2016 January 26 08:32:12

You can run up to 256 independent instances of the PixInsight Core application simultaneously.

To run a new instance, launch the core application with the '-n' command line argument:

$ PixInsight -n

or, if you prefer long arguments:

$ PixInsight --new-instance

You can also run a new instance of PixInsight from the Process Console window:

cd "$PXI_COREDIR"
!!./PixInsight -n

which is more practical on Windows and OS X, where most users don't know how or want to use a terminal (unfortunately).