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Re: How to stop a kerne calculationl without stopping the frontend

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• Subject: [mg44903] Re: How to stop a kerne calculationl without stopping the frontend
• From: drbob at bigfoot.com (Bobby R. Treat)
• Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 06:03:48 -0500 (EST)
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I don't USE a command to connect to the Mathematica kernel, and I
don't use MathLink. What then?

Bobby

Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote in message news:<bqs8pr$i02$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> Hi,
> 
> you can lower the priority of the MathKernel.exe process
> just replace the the kernel command used to connect to
> the Mathematica kernel with
> 
> start /LOW MathKernel.exe yourMathLinkArguments
> 
> but that is probably not usefull because you usual
> wish to see the kernel result as fast as possible and a lower
> priority will slow down your computing engine.
> 
> Regards
>   Jens
> 
> "Bobby R. Treat" wrote:
> > 
> > I frequently have this problem under WinXP as well. Alt+, and Alt+.
> > frequently do not stop iterations. The more badly I want to stop them,
> > the more difficult.
> > 
> > When keystrokes fail, I sometimes use the menus: Kernel>Interrupt
> > Evaluation or Kernel>Abort Evaluation. More often, that doesn't work
> > either, and I quit with Kernel>Quit Kernel.
> > 
> > But that fails often enough, too -- when the system is so busy the
> > Frontend menus don't respond.
> > 
> > It would be nice to see this problem fixed, and it really shouldn't be
> > THAT difficult.
> > 
> > Bobby
> > 
> > "mandarino" <pams at wwwsrv1.cepus.net> wrote in message news:<bqmqj9$r6s$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> > > I know you can stop a running calculation by alt+. for example, but that
> > > does not always work (on my PC-XP platform), and when I stop the kernel with
> > > e.g. XP-eventhandler , the front end ALSO terminates (without letting me
> > > save my notebook), is there some alternative way to stop an incommunicado
> > > kernel?
> > > That is: without also closing down the frontend.
> > >
> > > Peter W

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