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MC doesn't behave nicely doing resource intensive tasks
tij:
i have not programmed in ages ... so forgive me if i am wrong
if MC main process request OS to do something with LAN then wait before continue ... and OS takes it sweet time ... then MC becomes unresponsive till OS completes that task?
maybe create separate thread to hanle request to LAN ... so main MC thread remains responsive?
JimH:
We do use threading a lot.
Fitzcaraldo215:
--- Quote from: steff on January 26, 2018, 06:39:16 pm ---OS, antivirus, network bandwidth, etc....
I can confirm... in the last weeks I setup MC23 on almost 5 different computers, from a low cost 400€ Intel Atom to a very expensive and powerfoul Intel i7.
Every time MC has to deal with a network, regadless the speed of the netowork and/or the NAS... it hangs until its job is finished.
Moreover the MC23 GUI expands to the full screen, becomes blurry and overlap the Windows taskbar.
It is not a matter of CPU or memory or network... it is a MC matter.
I have the responsability to manage 46.000 PC worlwide running hundreds of different applications and I never see a beahviour like this.
right now I am on the Intel i7, 32 GB RAM, it is a graphic workstation, connected to an enterprise grade NAS and 1 Gbps bandwidht fully avaialble. I loaded 500 GB of audio tracks... whenever I change the folder... MC23 starts "thinking", freezes, expands the windows and generally hangs until job finished. AV completely turned off (service disabled).
No problem at all browsing the very same music archive with a Raspberry running freeware software.
Let me say that MC is really a nice program, I love the theatre view (I got the license for this reason) but can be improved really a lot.
All the above problems do not appear with local files.
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I have an older I7, 16GB and most files come from my NAS via gigabit Ethernet. I do not have anything like the problems you describe. When running JR 32-bit while converting Mch DSF files to PCM, applying JR bass management and using the Dirac Live VST plugin, initial buffering at the start of an album lasts just a few seconds, and the JR desktop GUI is on on my HiDef TV monitor, via an AMD GPU and HDMI. There are no further delays or playback issues as each album is played. CPU is in the 10-20% range and memory consumption is about 4GB, as I recall. I do not use Memory Playback.
I have also during music playback added up to 5-6 separate, additional resource intensive tasks in Windows, DSD rips, DSD ISO to DSF conversions, etc. Playback is undisturbed.
So, I have no problem to report. JR seems to work fine for me.
flac.rules:
--- Quote from: Fitzcaraldo215 on January 27, 2018, 01:09:22 pm ---I have an older I7, 16GB and most files come from my NAS via gigabit Ethernet. I do not have anything like the problems you describe. When running JR 32-bit while converting Mch DSF files to PCM, applying JR bass management and using the Dirac Live VST plugin, initial buffering at the start of an album lasts just a few seconds, and the JR desktop GUI is on on my HiDef TV monitor, via an AMD GPU and HDMI. There are no further delays or playback issues as each album is played. CPU is in the 10-20% range and memory consumption is about 4GB, as I recall. I do not use Memory Playback.
I have also during music playback added up to 5-6 separate, additional resource intensive tasks in Windows, DSD rips, DSD ISO to DSF conversions, etc. Playback is undisturbed.
So, I have no problem to report. JR seems to work fine for me.
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I am not talking about regular playback.
Fitzcaraldo215:
--- Quote from: Elvis133 on January 27, 2018, 01:50:38 pm ---I am not talking about regular playback.
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Ok, but if you expect some help, why be so mysterious and elusive? Please, give some specifics about exactly what you are attempting to do and more specific symptoms of the problem.
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