[TIP] windows build : low priority

[Volpe, Christopher R (CRD)]

Good tip. As an alternative, for some time now, I've been using the Cygwin bash shell. I just type
"nice nmake" (a la unix) and the build runs at low priority.

|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Sebastien BARRE [mailto:seb-ml-vtk at barre.nom.fr]
|> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 12:47 PM
|> To: vtk mailling list
|> Subject: [TIP] windows build : low priority
|> 
|> 
|> Hi
|> 
|> This is no fresh news, but here is a reminder regarding a 
|> well known issue 
|> : for these of us that are building VTK from source (and 
|> quite often if you 
|> are using the CVS), launching nmake *at command prompt* will 
|> freeze your PC 
|> for sometimes more than 2 hours.
|> 
|> Yes, NT is supposed to be multithread, but as nmake will run 
|> using NORMAL 
|> priority, there is no chance that you might do anything 
|> useful except 
|> drinking coffee.
|> 
|> So let's run nmake at LOW prority. Open a batch file called 
|> nmakelow.bat, 
|> and type that line :
|> 
|> start /LOW /B /WAIT nmake
|> 
|> Put nmakelow.bat anywhere in your PATH (near nmake.exe, or 
|> in the winnt/ 
|> directory), and instead of running nmake, now issue 
|> nmakelow, which will 
|> call the batch file, which will call nmake, etc. All 
|> processes/commands/programs run by nmake will use LOW priority, thus 
|> allowing you to work on your computer interactively.
|> 
|> If you are not sitting in front of your computer, there will be no 
|> difference between nmake and nmakelow, it will swallow 100% 
|> of your CPU. If 
|> you using nmakelow and doing "non-CPU intensive" stuff 
|> simultaneously, 
|> well... this does not make much difference either :)
|> 
|> Hope this helps
|> 
|> If you are building VTK or VTK programs from the VC++ IDE, 
|> this is another 
|> story (nmake is not used), there is a patch, feel free to ask...
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