Sounds like they need a smarter programmer. Apart from the I/O
operations to read and store the converted file having more threads than
processors for CPU intensive tasks is counterproductive. It's probably
driving the virtual memory manager batty and spending all its time task
switching or waiting on the swap file or both.
Chuck Norcutt
Wayne Harridge wrote:
>
>
>
>> Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Is anybody use RawTherapee? I downloaded it last night and started
>> playing around with it. So far, I'm pretty impressed--impressed
>> enough that I might finally retire RSE. But I'm a little leery of
>> driving down this B-Grade Road if there is a huge "gotcha" awaiting
>> me.
>>
>
> I started using it about a year ago, I'd previously been using RSE
> but they didn't support the E-510 so I tried RT. It gives you plenty
> of options when doing the conversion, more than I've had a chance to
> play with yet. I like the way you can save a profile for conversion,
> then do individual tweaks on top of that. The only gotcha I have
> noticed is the perfromance and the way it does the conversions in the
> "background", it builds what it calls a queue of conversions but
> judging by it's behaviour I think it just processes each file
> "concurrently" in a separate thread. Once it has more than a few
> conversions in it's "queue" it tends to bring my machine to it's
> knees and if it gets to 8 files in the queue the process usually
> dies. I guess if I upgraded my machine (been going to do that for 6
> months !) it might not be an issue.
>
> ...Wayne
>
> Wayne Harridge
>
> http://lrh.structuregraphs.com
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