LOW PRIORITY CPU settings

Deadline
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Hello, I want to know if it is possible to submit a job using a low priority cpu usage.

I am using XSI here and Deadline 3.1, and I am submitting jobs to working machines, and I really need them keep usable while rendering.
I looked everywhere and I could not find the setting and I read an old post saying that that feature would be present in V3 of Deadline.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Cheers.

C.

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You need to modify the XSI and XSIBatch plugins. Go to \your\repository\plugins and you should find XSI.py and XSIBatch.py in their respective folders. In each file, look for this line:

self.ProcessPriority = ProcessPriorityClass.Normal

and replace it with this:

self.ProcessPriority = ProcessPriorityClass.BelowNormal

XSI is the only software that we run at Normal priority by default. This is because the XSI developers had mentioned that running it at any other priority is not recommended.

Cheers,

  • Ryan