Source code for tracktable.script_helpers.argument_groups.parallel

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"""Options for parallel movie rendering.

This argument group allows you to set the number of processes and
(eventually) maximum memory that you're willing to use when rendering
movies in parallel.

Arguments:

| ``--processors NUMBER``
|   How many processes to spawn. The default value (0) means 'one process per detected core on the system'.
"""


from tracktable.script_helpers.argument_groups import create_argument_group, add_argument

GROUP_INSTALLED = False

[docs]def install_group(): """Standard method - define the Parallel Movie Rendering argument group""" global GROUP_INSTALLED if not GROUP_INSTALLED: GROUP_INSTALLED = True create_argument_group("parallel", title="Multiprocess Parallelism", description="Set the number of processes and (eventually) maximum memory that you want to use when running jobs in parallel.") add_argument("parallel", [ "--processors" ], type=int, default=0, help="How many processes to spawn. The default value (0) means 'one process for each detected core on the system'.")