Dead Keyboard, while scripts are running

[Carlos Milovic]

Juan, you are gonna love this: the keyboard is often dead while PI is running (working, not just with the dialog window open) a script. This means, I cannot write anything elsewhere. I'm running Fedora 13 x64.

[Nocturnal]

Probably running in realtime thread priority. At least that's how my PC used to behave when PI was being a bad citizen

[Juan Conejero]

No, this has nothing to do with thread priorities; that problem is definitely gone since several versions on all platforms. That could only happen on Linux if he'd enabled real-time priority at a system-level on his machine, and even running at the highest priority the keyboard wouldn't be blocked but sporadically during a few seconds at most.

Anyway this has nothing to do with threads because it's happening during script execution, and scripts are single-threaded.

Pretty weird! On which machine are you running PI?

[Carlos Milovic]

By the way, yesterday the keyboard was dead during ImageIntegration (or ImageCalibration) too. So, this is not just script related, although there are very few times where a process generates that behavior.
I'm working on a dual 2 core processor, 2 or 4 Gb of Ram. Overall, is a fine machine Having said that, I think that the monitor is stressing the system a lot, a 30" HP LCD, 2550x1900 px (of curse this is at work, not home! <vbg>)

[Juan Conejero]

Open a terminal window and run the top command. Run PixInsight and while it is doing a heavy process, tell me what priority (PR column), processor usage, etc. top lists for the PixInsight process.

[Carlos Milovic]

Monday I took the day off I'll be working today at home, updating process module codes and recompiling them with the new PCL.