multi... task

[Philippe B.]

Hello PI team


I explain...


Sometimes (or maybe too often), I launch a function which can be long (several minutes to complete, like deconvolution, imageintegration, HDRsomething)
During this process, I would like to do something like a small process on a 2nd image, or analyse some result...
In fact, I would like PI to be ready to work even during a long process.


Is it something realistic ?   

[Carlos Milovic]

Just a workaround: you may launch a second instance of PixInsight to keep working on other images.

[Alejandro Tombolini]

here one way to open a second instance from the console.
Saludos, Alejandro

[Philippe B.]

Thank you, I will see how it works

[vicent_peris]

Hi Philippe,

You can control the multi threading in PixInsight. You have the command "parallel" which can set the maximum number of allowed parallel threads. For instance, if you have a 4-core processor, you can run "parallel -p=6" to use only three cores. This way you have more processing power for the second PixInsight instance.


Best regards,
Vicent.