On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 08:40:06PM +0200, Peter Kümmel wrote: > On 04.05.2011 20:34, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 08:21:18PM +0200, Peter Kümmel wrote: > >>On 04.05.2011 19:38, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >>>- Missing ability to kill converters if they got stalled. You have to > >>> wait for a timeout and cannot kill them because they are in a thread > >>> of your same process. > >> > >>I don't know if I understand this, but also processes created by > >>QProcess could be killed. > > > >I was talking about the converters started for preview/export. They run > >in a thread and don't appear in the task manager on Windows or in a > >"ps -ef" on *nix. I was recently bitten by this and had to wait for > >30 minutes before I could continue the work without killing lyx itself. > >As bloat calls for other bloat, maybe a thread manager that allows to > >forcibly quit stalled threads is in order :) > > > > And in LyX 1.6 the converters where forked, so you could kill them?
Exactly. > I am innocent! ;) Then you can sleep the sleep of the just :) -- Enrico
