Priorities tab
 | Manual priority management should only be performed by experienced TwinCAT 3 users. |
Priority | Priority of the respective task in the TwinCAT system The type of tasks is differentiated by different icons. The smaller the number specified here, the higher the priority of the task within the TwinCAT system. A task that serves ADS communication should have the lowest priority for data consistency reasons. |
Cycle | Cycle time of the respective task in milliseconds (ms). |
Core | The core on which the task will be executed, i.e. the CPU selected in the drop-down list of the RT-Core column of the table. |
Task | Name of the task |
Comment | Comment |
Automatic Priority Management |
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Optimize manually | Automatically optimizes the priorities of existing tasks. |
Move Up | Moves a selected task up to the next free row. This will give the selected task a higher priority. |
Move Down | Moves a selected task down to the next free row. This will give the selected task a lower priority. |
Move To | Moves a selected task to a selected location. The numbers 1 to 61 can be selected for the 61 rows in the priority table. If a task to be moved is marked and a free row is selected, the marked task will be moved to the free selected row when the button is pressed. If a task to be moved is selected and a row is selected that already contains a task, the button is grayed out and disabled. |
The priorities of the existing tasks are prioritized automatically.