Hi! Am Montag 27 Juli 2009 schrieb David C. Rankin:
Since processing video takes a while, I thought I would look at the load the server was under and started first with top. top showed 152%, then 157% then 160% and then bounced around between 150-160%. I guess that is due to the quad core and top probably handling 2 cores fine, but getting confused with 4.
Top normalizes load to one core. On a multi-core system you can get <num cores> * 100 %. BTW, what you quoted was probably not load, but CPU utilization. Basically says, that you transcoding cannot use all of your CPU efficiently. Either cause it's io-bound or not parallized enough. Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Bach www.marix.org „Der einzige Weg, die Grenzen des Möglichen zu finden, ist ein klein wenig über diese hinaus in das Unmögliche vorzustoßen.“ - Arthur C. Clarke