Multitasking and Disk Thrashing

[Chewy]

With a good single core cpu, multitasking is fairly safe, it's accessing the hard drives that impacts performance to a point where 2 tasks done at the same time can take longer than done seperately.

I was burning a disk with nero at 8x and doing a full video encode, about the time the burn got going, the encode with vision started it's straight write from it's work folder to the output folder on another hard drive.

The problem was nero was burning from files on the same hard drive that vision was reading from.

20 minutes later my poor hard drive finally finished both tasks, buffers went crazy. Very bad timing, neither operation significantly slows down the other as long as vision is just doing the intensive encoding.

[NightTran]

I multitask all the time but with dual core and multiple drive those, just never mess around with nero ( it is very sensitive), I can use cucu or rebuilder or magic ripper while burning ( all have to use dif HD ), dvdd is my burning engine ( they do very good even CPU can be up to 100) + downloading in FF

[Chewy]

at the end of an encode I have vision and favc set up where they rip from
one hard drive to another(that's very fast) work or temp folder where the dvd
size files are stored to another folder on a seperate hard drive

dvdd, imgburn would have had the same problem, it was disk access not cpu
intensive

[NightTran]

nero vision and favc are two intensive program, I wont burn when those two running, I can burn with almost every other program

[Chewy]

vision's best feature is being able to set the cpu mode on the fly, in lower priority modes it makes the computer very responsive to other needs,
favc hits the ground running in high priority mode

[NightTran]

I can't even play video when FAVC is running

[jm1647]

@Chewy like you said the nero reading to burn and vision reading to write to a different HDD were being done from the same drive at the same time. And the drive musta took a good thrashing. The reading from different drives woulda sped things up

[katzdvd]

<center> All hail to Chewy! </center>
Since following the power user setup, I am able to multi-task to my heart's content without freezes, hangs, overheat, etc. Cut down on alot of unnecessary thread/processes & other junk running in the background.

Chewy's motto: Always run lean & mean!!!

[Chewy]

I am think about adding that 3rd hard drive that's been sitting around for a few months, the only problem is the via sata controller didn't like my overclock, but then I didn't know to relax the hypertranspost system bus.

Running it at stock 1000Mhz, before it was at 1450Mghz

[jm1647]

I am think about adding that 3rd hard drive that's been sitting around for a few months, the only problem is the via sata controller didn't like my overclock, but then I didn't know to relax the hypertranspost system bus.

Running it at stock 1000Mhz, before it was at 1450Mghz

That overclock stuff is over my head and I don't have a MOBO that will allow it on the AMD1500+ box AFAIK

But I did finally get the Maxtor SATA/150 PCI card filled up 6 HDDs and 2 ODD in it now