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Feature: global stagger_phase_limit #551

Open jneuhauser opened 3 years ago

jneuhauser commented 3 years ago

Describe the request Since phase 1 uses multiple threads, it would be good to also define a global stagger_phase_limit so that we can set a global phase limit for all plots on this machine regardless of the temple drive.

For sure i can use global_stagger_m with an approximate time for phase 1 on my machine, but this needs manual intervention on every machine.

I don't know if this is easily possible with the current code...

jneuhauser commented 3 years ago

I've seen a related PR about thie here: https://github.com/ericaltendorf/plotman/pull/514

ShocWave commented 3 years ago

Yes, we need this. I'm plotting using multiple 7200rpm hard drives for the temp dirs, and only want one job to be in phase one at a time. However, tmpdir_stagger_phase_major does not respect this across multiple temp dirs, and I end up with all my jobs in phase 1, slowing the computer to the point where I can barely even move the mouse.

jneuhauser commented 3 years ago

I'm using this since some days for the same purpose as you mentioned...

You can install latest development version with the applied PR by: pip install --force-reinstall git+https://github.com/ericaltendorf/plotman@refs/pull/514/merge

altendky commented 3 years ago

The tmp dir stagger stuff is per drive. What is it about phase 1 that makes you want to limit the jobs there? The multiple threads that you can configure in that phase?