[Feature Request] option for application/thread priority

[didito]

hello,

i checked the forum, documentation and issues tracker - i did not find any info on this topic, so i thought i should ask.

would it be possible to have a setting in transmission to set the priority of the whole application or its threads / subsystems (file i/o, network i/o, crypto, ...) to a lower level?
i know this should not be the responsibility of an application to schedule its threads and manage the total system load.
but P2P transfer seems to generally put a very heavy load on systems and the operating system sometimes does a poor job (at least on macosx).
so maybe it would be nice to have some sort of control about that until the operating systems get better.

because i like to keep transmission running after successful downloads (to seed).
i think i have a quite beefy system, but sometimes the heavy load makes this impossible to keep it running and working or watching a movie at the same time...

i know that you can set the process priority via commandline on macosx, but since there is no task manager or process explorer like on windows, i think
it is very uncomfty to always remember the appropriate commands ...

i guess transmission is already heavily threaded - i have read something about a thread pool - so maybe it is not that much of a deal ...
anyway, just a thought. keep up the good work!

[jch]

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$ man nice

[didito]

thanks, was not aware of this command.
will try it with a shell script then ...