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Old 12-14-2009, 02:41 PM   #7
drwowe
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
Because without that limit, people complain that calibre causes their computers to run slow/overheat/blah blah.
Why not set the limit to the number of cores during first setup?
After that, anyone playing with "Advanced" preferences has no right to complain...

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or if that still makes it too easy for users to shoot themselves, how about reading a variable ncpus from global.py (with no GUI). If it is set, then it overrides the detected number. Then nobody's computer overheats unless they Edit A Configuration File!

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