November 10, 2006
Need For (Quad) Speed
Running yum update for a new Fedora install under VMWare and snarfing my daily podcast fix via iTunes.
That's more than enough to turn a 2.6GHz Pentium 4 into jelly.
Just on that subject, is iTunes a complete and utter cow on MacOS too, or does that version actually work? Grabbing 100% of the CPU simply to download a file (at, I might add, an effective speed of 128kbps) seems a bit much.
Hrrm. I have a 7.02 update to apply. Bet you twenty cents it doesn't help.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 10:54 AM | Comments (724) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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That really doesn't sound right. I just asked Brian Tiemann about it, and he responded:
"I just did four simultaneous video podcast downloads in iTunes 7.0.2 on a Sempron 1.6 GHz with 768 MB of RAM, and the CPUusage never averaged more than about 18%. Sounds like your friend's got something unusual happening, though Icouldn't guess what at this point."
"I just did four simultaneous video podcast downloads in iTunes 7.0.2 on a Sempron 1.6 GHz with 768 MB of RAM, and the CPUusage never averaged more than about 18%. Sounds like your friend's got something unusual happening, though Icouldn't guess what at this point."
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at November 10, 2006 03:58 PM (+rSRq)
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It may signify that I have 3000+ podcasts and 10,000+ music tracks. I don't recall that it used to be this slow, but since I got serious about downloading podcasts, it's turned into a giant slugcow.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 10, 2006 07:05 PM (PiXy!)
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