process priority setup

Deadline
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Is there an option to setup CPU priority for tasks that are starting to render?
To render with lower priority on CPU?
To have same thing as with Task Manager/Processes/Right click on process and set property below normal?

Right now when one task starts for example chunk of 10 frames as soon as new chunk starts new process has its proprity back to normal.

Thanks!

2

Which software are you using Deadline to render with? By default, Deadline should already be rendering with below-normal priority for all software except XSI (since the XSI developers recommended against this). If you are rendering with XSI, open up these two files in a text editor:

\your\repository\plugins\XSI\XSI.py
\your\repository\plugins\XSIBatch\XSIBatch.py

Find this line in each file:

self.ProcessPriority = ProcessPriorityClass.Normal

Replace with this:

self.ProcessPriority = ProcessPriorityClass.BelowNormal

If this is a custom plugin, you can define this in the InitializeProcess() function in the .py file (refer to the 2 files mentioned above to see how it’s done).

Cheers,

  • Ryan