durumdara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The problem, that: > - I want to process 100-200 MB zip files. > - I want to abort in process > - I want to know the actual position > - I want to slow the operation sometimes! > >Why I want to slow? > >The big archiving is slow operation. When it is slow, I want to >working with other apps while it is processing. > >So I want to slow the zipping with time.sleep, then the background >thread is not use the full CPU... >I can work with other apps.
Surely a more intelligent (and much easier) solution would be to reduce the priority of your archiving process. Your operating system is far better equipped to share the CPU than you are. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list