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CPU Usage
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dznutz45
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23. October 2006 @ 15:59 |
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Not sure why but this happens every so often. When I shrink the CPU Usage goes up to almost 100 % and I can't use other programs as they just slow right down as well as slow my shrinking down. Normally when i shirnk it only uses between 20 and 50%. Why does this happen?
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23. October 2006 @ 16:17 |
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Well, you really shouldn't be doing anything else when shrink is transcoding.
Regardless, if the usage is going up to 100% you may need to upgrade your computer. RAM helps the most.
Latest AnyDVD to rip > VOBB to blank the unwanted on a DVD > Shrink to compress > ImgBurn to burn = Never starting a thread asking how to backup a movie
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CNASJUnit
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23. October 2006 @ 18:24 |
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Agreed, although he could have all the RAM in the world, but a weak processor won't be able to compute all the bus' activity. Anything that deals with changing the way data is extracted, or composed, or modification of anything data-related to these images, will definitely run your System bus, CPU, and RAM all the way up. Not "All" the way up, but other instances could include the registry, drivers, or memory addresses. Basically bro, just make sure from your task manager, or other program, that running instances are to a bare minimum - this will allow any modification, more than likely come out perfect; granted you took the proper steps in your altercation, lol.
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dznutz45
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24. October 2006 @ 03:21 |
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well in the almost 4 years I have been using shrink it runs fine on the RAM and size of processor I have (448 MB RAM, 2.2 GB AMD) "MOST" of the time. For some unkown reason every now and then it hogs the processor and uses the whole processor all to itself. The way I understand it when you shrink it uses the processor and ripping it just mainly runs off RAM (i use shrink for ripping as well as shrinking, for those that wonder why I use it to rip.... it is just a habit and nothing else, and by the way ripping doesn't cause this issue just shrinking which means this is a CPU issue and not a RAM issue.
In the past I have actually formatted (not just for the shrnking problems) and once formatted shrink goes back to only using the resourses it was meant to use.
If it works fine on a new format then my guess would be I have plenty of RAM and a big enough processor. Something else is casuing this and I am not sure what. I keep my PC pretty much fine tuned, don't over load it with too many programs, keep stuff out of startup etc...
I guess I was hoping to run into someone else who had the same problem and found a solution. I really don't think a bigger computer will solve this, there is an underlying cause which i was hoping to discover.
My first computer in 1998 was a Gateway (I was pretty naive) and I reacll not being able to boot up so I called tech support. Basically the tech told me I was going to lose everything and I would have to reformat and start all over. Sure that was one solution but not the one I wanted to hear. Well to make a long story short I speant about an hour (without the help of the experienced tech) and was able to boot my PC up, back everything up and never had that problem again)
I might not have the answer (as of yet) but I have been around computers long enough to know when one answer isn't the solution.
anyway thanks for the replies so far.
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24. October 2006 @ 08:23 |
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Shrink will eat as much CPU as it can; i have ripped 1000s of movies and multitask quite happily during most of them with 100% flawless results (and decent enough peformance out of the PC), the only time i don't multitask is during the actual burn to (blank) disc phase
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CNASJUnit
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24. October 2006 @ 11:41 |
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Well. I don't know the source of your problem to be honest. The CPU has 2 caches; L1 and L2. Sometimes computers have an L3, but with the Pentium you mentioned, I doubt it. Anyways, I don't believe your processor is the problem. The only thing your processor is doing really, is holding the cache memory for the execuble. However, shrinking should actually be more in RAM. CPUs have something called prefetching ( where it will guess what the user will do next), so after a while of running the same shrinking program, prefetch shouldn't overload itself, as the CPU can already go get the algorithyms used for shrinking. Honestly, this is a RAM problem. You could actually make the available read pages in memory more, but this will not increase performance necisarilly; it will only process more data at much with the memory, but not enhance it. If you think something is hogging your system while you shrink, I suggest it's an edit in the registry that shouldn't be there. Go into the event viewer from Control Panel, under admionistrative options. And anything that has to do with your software (problems are indicated by a red x), you should look into that. My guess is if you're familar with the "regedit" command, look in your registry, and find the root for your shrinking program. I hope this helped; if not, I'll get back to you.
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