Re: Processor usage and Disk usage during a big bounce
2015/05/12 09:14:04
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I've wondered about the "low-ish" processor/disk readings during a render/bounce/export, too, gswitz. Especially when, if I use, say, Adobe Premiere or After Effects, I can get 100% cpu (on all cores) for extended periods. (And on my overclocked CPU, if I forget to crank the case fan, the computer shuts down when it overheats!) I would like to see the numbers going higher on a Sonar render (assuming I remembered to turn the fan up), but I suspect it is as bitflipper says, and that the drives are the bottleneck. (Writing to drives is certainly the bottleneck with the aforementioned Adobe products, and they have all sorts of temp disk/file schemes to try and alleviate the effects.)
I further suspect that some plugins behave more "real-timey" and slow things down, but that's just a hunch. Would be a "fun" exercise to try a series of test renders with/without various plugins and see if the elapsed process time changes (and perhaps even if the cpu usage changes?).
I find that if there is any clip processing (like time stretching), processing time seems to get really drawn out, but I've yet to put a stopwatch to it. (Another "fun" exercise in the wings.)
I'm saving up for a SSD. All my problems (and I have a handful) will be solved! HEY, does anyone have some numbers (please state if factual or made-up) on how much faster an audio export happens with a SSD in the picture? Does the Sonar CPU go higher in this case (when the drive is mas rapido)?