Super Slow Converting Speeds

[gongos]

I converted a few albums last night from FLAC to mp3 w/o a problem. The were converted at about 7 to 8x speeds. Today I tried to batch encode some albums and the speed has dropped down to 1x. I'm using the 30 day trial. Nothing has been altered on my computer. Any ideas?

[Spoon]

Re: Super Slow Converting Speeds

Look at taskmanager and CPU usage, check if something else is using the CPU.

[gongos]

Re: Super Slow Converting Speeds

My system idle is using 95%+. Any suggestions?

[Spoon]

Re: Super Slow Converting Speeds

And when batch encoding it is 100%? check the memory usage, if the system is paging out to a swap file this can slow everything down.

[gongos]

Re: Super Slow Converting Speeds

Well, I tried it again this morning, and I'm now getting 11x speed instead of
0.6x. The only thing I changed was I send the encoded files to a folder on my desktop instead od the 2mb flash drive I was using.

[bhoar]

Re: Super Slow Converting Speeds

Well, I tried it again this morning, and I'm now getting 11x speed instead of
0.6x. The only thing I changed was I send the encoded files to a folder on my desktop instead od the 2mb flash drive I was using.

It is quite possible that the flash drive is slow *and* windows is set up to disable all filesystem caching for flash devices. If, in addition, dbpa was performing a large # of small I/O transactions, those three things, together, can destroy performance.

-brendan