Re: How to stop a kerne calculationl without stopping the frontend
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- Subject: [mg44953] Re: How to stop a kerne calculationl without stopping the frontend
- From: drbob at bigfoot.com (Bobby R. Treat)
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 04:02:08 -0500 (EST)
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Like most people, I type expressions into the FrontEnd. If I'm using MathLink, I'm unaware of it. (Until now.) The question remains: how do I start the kernel at a different priority? Without a DOS command line, preferably. Bobby Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote in message news:<br41ls$iuk$1 at smc.vnet.net>... > Hmmm, > > if you have just a kernel you can just use > the command line and set the priority with > start, don't type > > math > > just type > > start /LOW math.exe > > *But* if you dont' use a FrontEnd, where do you have > the > > > > > When keystrokes fail, I sometimes use the menus: Kernel>Interrupt > > > > Evaluation or Kernel>Abort Evaluation. More often, that doesn't work > > > > either, and I quit with Kernel>Quit Kernel. > > menues ? If you use the FrontEnd you *must* use MathLink and you > must use a command to launch the kernel ? > > Regards > Jens > > > "Bobby R. Treat" wrote: > > > > I don't USE a command to connect to the Mathematica kernel, and I > > don't use MathLink. What then? > > > > Bobby > > > > Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote in message news:<bqs8pr$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