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2004 Aug 06
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> i am almost out of free memory . i would expect this would be a priority
> .. but will it make a difference in CPU usage ?
no, in general free memory is bad, it's unused, but a small amount
unused is ok as that means some pages can be allocated without stalling.
Note that you have 48Meg in page cache which can be easily reclaimed by
apps.
> and my CPU usage is near 1oo% . .. this is due to 2 streamTranscoder runs
> . .. for now , i want to do this -- (unless there's a better way to play
> mp3 streams from ogg file , is ices 0.3 any better optimized for playlist
>...
2004 Aug 06
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> As a general rule, you don't want to set up a system with a load average of
> more than 1 (per cpu, so between 1 and 2 is ok for a dual cpu system).
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> ices (when not encoding) will use a negligible amount of cpu, so the problem
> is probably entirely the stream transcoders.
<p>assuming i want to continue using streamTranscoder ( and that it cannot be
optimized