[IDEA] Dynamic priority process

[belese]

Yes 5 is maybe too much,
i'll do some test, and it's easier to remove level than add level, for now level 3 and 4 do the same.

in upstart script, it easy to react on more than one level, so 5 level could be interpreted as number level as you want.
ex :

start on xbmcplevel [12] will start when screensaver is on
start on xbmcplevel [345] will start when screensaver is off

or you can use other event (screensaver, player and library) that bridge send

For download package, the idea is create a xbmc_priority.conf like file, but when xbmc is low priority, it could set the download package higher priority and vice-versa.

Quote:Only thing I can think of is to higher the priority when a web-interface of one of the download packages is accessed

i was thinking about that too, look a bit in maraschino package, and should be easy to send an upstart event when a connection is receive, and create a upstart job that higher nice level for the process during 2 minutes (or more/less), and restore defaut priority after.

EDIT : Ater reflexion, you need to be root to send an upstart event, so this is not the solution
or by writing a script that send upstart event and add it to sudoers file