Wow, that's a lot of parallel disk accesses. And reencoding a movie? Lots of virtual memory use too. So you end up having to page swap a lot, and the disk is busy doing 4 other things. No wonder everything slows down.
Your computer is fast enough, it's just I/O bound. Throwing more hardware at it isn't going to fix anything.
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Date: 2010-01-15 02:38 am (UTC)Your computer is fast enough, it's just I/O bound. Throwing more hardware at it isn't going to fix anything.