Add new argument to sd-cli to generate only certain number of diffusion steps then abort (not to be confused with total steps --steps for schedule creation).

[alex-ie]

Note: correct me if my knowledge is wrong here - I am a newbie in SD.

To iterate through larger number of images on low speed GPU and select only a few, it will be beneficial to add an argument to sd-cli to generate only certain number of diffusion steps then abort (--steps is used for "schedule" creation hence cannot be used for that as changing it will change final result).

Then from generated by proj / tae previews select the best to generate full sequence (AFAIK that will be deterministic if "main" inputs are same). I could not find such argument now, manually canceling the process is far less convenient.

Workaround for now could be some script monitoring log and terminating the generation, but clean exit using an additional argument is better IMO.

[crystalsighting]

Need to use sd-server, you can then poll the job Id, and send request to api to cancel the job.