ThreadPriority property
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ThreadPriority property
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| dcMultiDiskScanner, dcDiskScanner, dcFolderMonitor and dcFileTail components.
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| property ThreadPriority: TThreadPriority;
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| The ThreadPriority property determines the thread's scheduling priority relative to other threads in the process.
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| ThreadPriority indicates and specifies the priority of searching process relatively to the main application thread. Adjust the priority higher or lower as needed.
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| TThreadPriority type defines the possible values for the Priority property of the TThread component, as defined in the following table. Windows schedules CPU cycles to each thread based on a priority scale; the Priority property adjusts a thread's priority higher or lower on the scale.
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| Values | Meaning
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| tpIdle | The thread executes only when the system is idle-Windows won't interrupt other threads to execute a thread with tpIdle priority.
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| tpLowest | The thread's priority is two points below normal.
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| tpLower | The thread's priority is one point below normal.
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| tpNormal | The thread has normal priority.
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| tpHigher | The thread's priority is one point above normal.
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| tpHighest | The thread's priority is two points above normal.
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| tpTimeCritical | The thread gets highest priority.
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 Boosting the thread priority of a CPU intensive operation may "starve" the other threads in the application. Only apply priority boosts to threads that spend most of their time waiting for external events.
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