[AG-TECH] H.264 bittersweet experience.

[Jason Bell]

G'day All

Just thought I would post some CPU usage statistics whilst MPEG4
streaming.

I am currently encoding and decoding on a Dell T3400 Core 2 Quad CPU
machine running Fedora 8!

*	3 x Mpeg4 streams as Large

*	1 x DV Stream @ 36 megs a second

Core 1 - 	28%
Core 2 -	29%
Core 3 -	46%
Core 4 -	47%

Note: these values change every second, but average usage across all 4
cores is around 40%.

Output on TOP

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
29456 jastest   30  10  202m  19m 6004 R   38  1.0 488:18.97 vic
 3269 jastest   30  10 90240  23m 7276 S   35  1.2   3:32.75 vic
 1482 jastest   30  10 94784  31m 7312 R   33  1.5  18:18.08 vic
 1486 jastest   30  10 94664  30m 7316 S   33  1.5  17:11.20 vic
 2798 root      20   0  419m  55m  13m S   13  2.8 162:08.95 X

I hope this information is useful to some.

Cheers,
Jason.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Hodrien [mailto:johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk] 
Sent: Wednesday, 19 March 2008 03:40 AM
Cc: ag-tech
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] H.264 bittersweet experience.

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Piers O'Hanlon wrote:

> What spec/OS machines are you running VIC on? We have noticed that
> MPEG4 is slightly less CPU intensive - or do you see them equally CPU
> hungry?

I've not yet tried MPEG4 (I only update vic t'other day), but I'll give
that a
bash.

Machine is AMD X2 4400+, 2Gb ram, Fedora 8.

jh

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