[pygtk] Subprocess and changing it's priority

[Steve McClure]

Take a look the "nice" man page.  That will let you run a process at  
a priority other than the default.

On Feb 25, 2008, at 5:49 AM, Vláďa wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a GUI program which runs some CLI processes. I  use modified  
> code of this module:
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/440554
>
> It is a black magic for me. :-)
>
> Then I run the CLI application:
> self.p = subprocess2.Popen 
> (cmd,shell=False,bufsize=0,stdout=subprocess2.PIPE,stderr=subprocess2. 
> STDOUT)
>
> and add a callback:
> gobject.timeout_add(200,self.progress_callback)
>
> Everything works fine. But I'd like to add an option to change  
> priority of the process I started. It is a video encoder, so it  
> uses 100% of CPU and takes hours to finish. So you might want to  
> lower it's priority. Is there an easy way do do it? Thank you.
>
> Best regards,
> Vlada
>
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