Noticing some things now that I have the full donation version and can use parallel threads. Parallel threads were actually one of my primary reasons for moving up to this version so, thank you.
1) It appears that when you have more than one thread activated, say for example 6, that the program will load up a batch of six but will not add more threads as those run down until the last of the first 6 is done. If you are copying a lot of small files with some bigger ones mixed in, the program will basically get to one thread with the "big" file and will not pick up on any of the smaller files until that one is done. In this situation, I was expecting it to fully run 6 threads and pick up a new thread each time a previous thread was done so that 6 will continuously doing some work. There will always be a mix of smaller and larger files and the processing performance is greatly reduced when it gets "stuck" with only one thread and a big file mostly defeating the purpose of parallel threads.
2) It would be nice if there was a "rolling status" of sorts on the threads/jobs being worked on. It currently just displays one thread and the status of that thread even though it might be working many other files with other threads. I have another FTP program that uses threads for multiple copies and it will keep a running status window (would be happy to share a screen shot of this) of the jobs it is working on and then push them down as they finish and then new threads launch with a new file. I was kind of expecting to see this with FFS.
As mentioned, I was really excited to use parallel threads with FFS but I am struggling a bit with #1 and #2 above.
Thank you!
Mark Monroe
Parallel Threads
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