Re: Is it Memory or processor?
- From: Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:07:39 GMT
sridhar wrote:
I have been having trouble while converting my dv files to mpeg thro'
kino as well as converting my photos to mpeg or .vob using dvd-
slideshow. 50% of the times the PC hangs somewhere during. Mostly
while mpeg2enc or convert or Transcode is running. Not sure if it is
memory problem or processor. I have a 512 RAM with 3Gb Swap and Athlon
XP 2600 1.9Gb processor on Linux Fedora core 5. checking the memory
usage while the process is running shows that RAM used is about 80-90%
How did you check memory usage? I ask because just looking at total memory
consumed on my machine, with 8 GBytes RAM, even when the machine is "idle,"
shows > 95% memory consumption. Usually around 2/3 of it is just input cache
data that can be discarded anytime the kernel wishes to assign RAM to a process.
and Swap almost nothing. Checking the processor usage shows that CPU
usage can be from 45% to 70% to sometimes close to 100% while mpeg2enc
is running. So what could be the reason? Is it worth adding another
512 RAM?
Not likely. If it is not paging, you do not need more memory.
Anyother way or either slowing it down so that it finishes
without hanging?
If you are overclocking your machine, stop doing that. Otherwise, slowing it
down is a mistake. You might try memtest86 program (stand-alone) to test
your memory. Do it for a long time; e.g., overnight.
Thanks for your help
NS
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