DVD Shrink only using 50% CPU

[TBoneit]

I think I'm in the right forum as Vs Computer forum. If I'm wrong please move as It may be a Windows problem.

All of a sudden my DVD Shrink times went way up. I've checked the shrink settings and they seem right.

I brought up the Task manager and it is showing Shrink at 48% total CPU at 54%. CPU 1 is at 100% and CPU 2 is at almost no usage.

1 P4 3.0 Hyperthreading CPU. Windows XP always shows a HT CPU as two CPUs in device manager and Performance monitor.

Any Ideas if this is a Windows or a Shrinjk problem and where to look. I consider myself knowledgeable but have no idea where to start here.

Thanks
Roger

[jimmalenko]

Just thinking out loud here ...

Maybe a PIO/UDMA issue ?

If you rip with DVDDecrypter, does the ripping process in itself seem to take much longer now ?

corrupted ASPI ?

[TBoneit]

I Always rip with DVD Decrypter. This is a encoding issue not a burning issue. It should be using 100% of the CPU when analyzing or encoding not less than 50%.

Right now it is encoding and and is at 45% meaning 55% is left to do. And is showing 58 Minutes left. Much longer than tha it used to take.

Cheers

[jimmalenko]

AEC options ?

Deep analysis ?

Defragged hard drive ?

[Josef K]

It should be using 100% of the CPU when analyzing or encoding not less than 50%.

I brought up the Task manager and it is showing Shrink at 48% total CPU at 54%. CPU 1 is at 100% and CPU 2 is at almost no usage.

It is using 100% of the CPU. Just the one, though. HT is pseudo dual processors, so 50%*2=100%.

As to why it's suddenly appearing to use less resources and taking longer - have you changed anything? Specifically enabling/disabling HT in the BIOS.

[TBoneit]

AEC options ?

Deep analysis ?

Defragged hard drive ?

Same settings

Nope, It seems to be taking longer because it isn't using all the CPU like it should be.

Puzzling to me.

Cheers

[TBoneit]

It should be using 100% of the CPU when analyzing or encoding not less than 50%.

I brought up the Task manager and it is showing Shrink at 48% total CPU at 54%. CPU 1 is at 100% and CPU 2 is at almost no usage.

It is using 100% of the CPU. Just the one, though. HT is pseudo dual processors, so 50%*2=100%.

As to why it's suddenly appearing to use less resources and taking longer - have you changed anything? Specifically enabling/disabling HT in the BIOS.

I just rebooted and HT is still enabled in the BIOS. HT still shows ok in Device manager too. If I can't figure it out I may roll back to when it was installed and then re-install everything, Bleeh, Yuck! Well that won't work it only shows restore points back to the 16th of Dec. I could sw
itch back to the other windows install and see if that works better. It had problems from too many codecs installed.

Second CPU Performance windows blips up when I do things such as start a program and then settles back to near zero usage.

I know it is in one way using 100% of one CPU but why not the other is what is puizzling me.

Anybody know of any settings in windows Xp that control CPU utilization.

Cheers

[TBoneit]

I just tried uninstalling Shrink & Re-installing it and it seems better. Still not as quick as before but better.

Is there anyone with a Intel HT P4 that runs shrink that can check to see if it uses both processors aT 100%??

Thanks
Roger

[bunyip]

I have a Pentium 3006 Mhz with HT and 2 SATA drives.
Running shrink uses 100% CPU (both pseudo processors running at full capacity).

One thing to check is the 'Affinity' on the running process.
In Task Manager, right click on the Shrink process (in the 'Processes' list) while it is running and select 'Affinity' and check that both CPU's are enabled.

[TBoneit]

Good Idea to check, I just started Shrink and checked and both CPUs are set to be used. I just don't know what to think. This WinXP Pro is only running less than 2 months from the clean install, I just switched the C & D drives in the cmos (reversed them IOW and did a clean install. I'm beginning to thionk it is deeper than a shrink problem.... I just ran TMPGenc Plus and CPU Usage wasn't pegged.

I'd like to find the problem and if it is software related I can go do another Fresh install but no sense until I know what happened if it is a windows problem. I only running more or less good stuff...

TMPGenc Plus, DVD Author, Express 3.0
Shrink, DVD Decrypter.
GSpot, Some software I've used for years.
DVD Patcher, ISO Buster, Video ReDo (trial right now)
Nero 5.5
? Sw Divx 5.
I just don't know

Thanks for the help, That's a setting I couldn't recall.
Roger

[JSB]

One thing to check is the 'Affinity' on the running process.
In Task Manager, right click on the Shrink process (in the 'Processes' list) while it is running and select 'Affinity' and check that both CPU's are enabled.

That be it...

For some reason Shrink does not use "both" processors by default. I always have to do the workaround like bunyip states.

JSB

[TBoneit]

One thing to check is the 'Affinity' on the running process.
In Task Manager, right click on the Shrink process (in the 'Processes' list) while it is running and select 'Affinity' and check that both CPU's are enabled.

That be it...

For some reason Shrink does not use "both" processors by default. I always have to do the workaround like bunyip states.

JSB

Unfortunately on mine it is only using one even though both are checked and I know I had never set it.

Danged aggravating!

Cheers

[TBoneit]

This thread might be better off in Computers?`

Well it has started working with better speed so maybe it was something on that DVD?

stragely enough even TMPGEnc Plus and Xpress 3 only are running in the 80% to low 90% range of cpu use.

Cheers