Post Processing bat file question

[nightwalker]

Check available memory after it's been running for a while, and check it as soon as you see the problem again. Maybe you have some renegade process that's eating up memory.

1 GB of ram is certainly more than enough for a dedicated GB-PVR machine, but if your running something with a bad memory leak, it doesn't matter how much ram you have.

Well, this has been an interesting day, looking back at logs. What I've learned so far is I'm in need of a system rebuild. Todays recordings all went just fine, however slow, very slow. I had my wife's soaps set up on two different machines to record. one the normal GBpvr system and another clean system. On a one hour recording, It took 14 minutes to run, comskip, comclean and retime on the new system. It took 47 minutes on the normal server, even though it all went well today it was slow.

Finding available memory is almost by chance. I stumbled on it twice, by accident and seems to be way more than i need. What i did notice was on the normal system background services running comskip jumped up to around 50% CPU usage, for comclean and retime it dropped to 1% or less of CPU.

On the fresh system comskip again took around 50% of CPU to run, however comclean and retime both hovered around 7% of CPU.

The time to run comskip was about the same on both systems, it was comclean and retime that were significantly more.

I'm wondering if them only using 1% or less of CPU would make that kind of difference. I'm guessing it would. Both systems have pretty similar spec's.

Either way first chance i get it's time for the yearly wipe and rebuild. XP and associated hardware takes about 2 hours, GBpvr takes about 10 minutes or less to do.

Let one of those other pvr's try and match that

[wtg]

Another thing to look at - make sure the disks are running with your highest available DMA mode. This too can cause your machine's performance to take a dive.

There are a number of arcane reasons Windows may at some point lower the access mode on your drive, and once it does so, it won't bump them back up even if it would otherwise be fine. (I can't recall all the weird things that can cause this, but I've read some good articles about it.) I noticed this happened to one of my drives... took forever to copy a files to it. Finally checked my drive properties, found the mode had dropped down to one of the PIO modes, reset it to the highest DMA available and then it was fine.

Good luck!

[nightwalker]

Another thing to look at - make sure the disks are running with your highest available DMA mode. This too can cause your machine's performance to take a dive.

There are a number of arcane reasons Windows may at some point lower the access mode on your drive, and once it does so, it won't bump them back up even if it would otherwise be fine. (I can't recall all the weird things that can cause this, but I've read some good articles about it.) I noticed this happened to one of my drives... took forever to copy a files to it. Finally checked my drive properties, found the mode had dropped down to one of the PIO modes, reset it to the highest DMA available and then it was fine.

Good luck!

I've looked at the settings and nothing is really jumping out at me as being wrong. All seems fine. I may never know the real reason for the slow down and for now a rebuild seems about the least painful way to get back to where it should be. It's something I've done once a year or so anyway.

I've gotten a lot of good info in this thread, even learned a few things, not a bad deal at all. I appreciate all the input.

[nightwalker]

Another thing to look at - make sure the disks are running with your highest available DMA mode. This too can cause your machine's performance to take a dive.

There are a number of arcane reasons Windows may at some point lower the access mode on your drive, and once it does so, it won't bump them back up even if it would otherwise be fine. (I can't recall all the weird things that can cause this, but I've read some good articles about it.) I noticed this happened to one of my drives... took forever to copy a files to it. Finally checked my drive properties, found the mode had dropped down to one of the PIO modes, reset it to the highest DMA available and then it was fine.

Good luck!

Wtg
While going through everything this is the only setting I've been unable to find. Can you please explain where this is located? I looked at the drive proprieties and it's not apparent to me.

[wtg]

Sure thing... it's found in the Device Manager found in the Control Panel's System settings.

From there, find your IDE controller, right-click, select Properties and look for your drive(s) on the primary and secondary channels. You want the highest possible settings for Transfer mode. When I last had trouble, my second drive have dropped down into PIO mode, the slowest mode possible.

Let us know what you find.

[nightwalker]

Thanks, i was looking under drives instead of the controllers, Duh! It's always better when you learn something besides what your question was about.