Question regarding msconvert multithreading

[EfraMP]

Hi,

I have been using the Docker image pulled from proteowizard/pwiz-skyline-i-agree-to-the-vendor-licenses to use msconvert on a Linux machine with high computational power. I noticed that there is the option —singleThreaded.

Does this mean that the default parameter uses multiple threads? If that’s the case, how many does it use? Is this option even possible/available if I’m running wine under a Docker container?

Any answer to this would be highly appreciated :)
Thanks!

[chambm]

Some filters, like CWT peak picking, benefit from multithreading, so when those filters are used it will use 16 threads or the number of hardware threads available on the machine, whichever is less. Yes, it should work under wine, but possibly not as well as native Windows. I haven't tested CWT on wine.

[EfraMP]

Cool!

Is there some list of those filters or some specific part of the documentation I could dig in more deeply?? Is there an option to choose how many threads to use? (Besides 1 and 16, obviously)

[chambm]

Just checked, there's only two filters with benefitsFromWorkerThreads() returning true: peakPicking and chargeFromIsotope (aka "turbocharger"); both use CWT peak picking, but for different purposes.

[EfraMP]

Cool! Thanks for the quick answer!!