Reader slows everything else!

Adobe Reader XI, Version 11.0.5, running under Windows 7. Frequently find all applications running at a crawl or stalling indefinitely. When that happens Task Manager Processes Screen discloses that multiple instances of Acrord are still resident (6, 8, 12, or more). This happens even when no pdfs are open and all recent pdf viewing has been long closed. Using Task Manager to close all those remaining instances restores normal computer speed.

Interesting. But to the extent that I'm describing? The jump from AME CS 6 to CC 10 is enormous, with CC 10 I basically can't transcode and do anything else on my computer at the same time. I doubt that Adobe designed their product to be used exclusively in this way.

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Media Encoder Slows Everything Else Down

Hello,
I'm a happy new user of CC 2014 for the most part, just having one issue so far. Whenever I transcode with AME CC 2014, everything else on my computer becomes unbearably slow. Most of my searches for this issue have turned up complaints about AME itself being too slow. I'm having the opposite problem. AME is ripping through transcodes like no one's business, and I'm very satisfied with its vastly improved performance from Compressor and other older software, but I need to be able to do other things while I'm transcoding! (NOTE: I was not experiencing this issue with AME CS 6)
Based on some advice I got, I made sure that my Renderer was set to Mercury Playback Engine Software Only and not Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (OpenCL). Unfortunately, I noticed no change between the two options. I tried changing the Memory allocation in Preferences as well. Here is a screenshot of my CPU's memory usage across two test transcodes. The first hump shows ~96% CPU usage by AME when I allocate 10 GB to AME and 6 GB to other software. The second hump, also ~96%, is from allocating 1 GB to AME and 15 GB to other software. No improvement noticed when tweaking Memory allocation settings.
When AME is transcoding, my Wacom tablet (USB) slows down until the cursor is moving through sludge, appearing and reappearing constantly. Interestingly, my bluetooth mouse does not experience the same decrease in responsiveness, but basically all other software becomes unusably glitchy and slow.
I like the new AME render speeds, I just want to strike a balance between fast rendering and multitasking in other video software. Any ideas of how to fix this problem?

Interesting. But to the extent that I'm describing? The jump from AME CS 6 to CC 10 is enormous, with CC 10 I basically can't transcode and do anything else on my computer at the same time. I doubt that Adobe designed their product to be used exclusively in this way.

YouTube unbearably slow; everything else fine.

Hi there,
I've been experiencing increasingly severe YouTube buffering times. Speed tests suggest I'm getting the 5mbps I should be, but according to YouTube's stats, my average rate over the last month was 2.39 mbps. Even that is heavily weighted by the more decent download speeds I had a few weeks ago. At this point, I cannot even play a video in 240p without long buffering.
Every other website works fine; I can stream HD videos from Netflix and other sources without issue.
Also, this occurs with every computer I use in the house.
Please help.

You Tube is the third most popular website. They get a LOT of traffic. So their servers get bogged down at peak times. They know it. Which is why they give tips on dealing with low speed and suggest not viewing in HD. The only solution is to deal with the buffering or visit in off hours. In my experience during early morning and late night hours (11pm) I don't have a problem with any video. During the day and evening a lot of videos don't play well.

System preferences is very slow, everything else is fine

I have a Macbook Pro from mid-2009 and since installing Mountain Lion yesterday I have some major performance issues only with System Preferences. It started when I wanted to configure iCloud and now I notice it is for nearly all items in System Preferences. Does anyone have any ideas?

I managed to get some performance back by disabling icloud on all devices (iphone and ipad) and then restarting the icloud setup process on my macbook first, followed by the devices. It all seems to work better now however still not as good as I would expect.
The back to my mac option also does not work and nor does the find my mac.

Am I the only one that thinks iTunes slows everything down?

Maybe my computer is just very slow, but I feel like itunes is terrible in terms of memory usage. Every time I start it, it takes forever to boot and slows everything else down. Even if my computer is slow, this is a fault in the program as others don't have this effect... Anyone have feedback?

There's not much in iTunes that would slow the boot process of your computer, since the support processes (Mobile Device Support and Bonjour are the only ones I can think of that start at boot, though I may be forgetting one or two others) that iTunes uses don't start until late in the boot process. So I doubt that all your performance problems stem from iTunes. But you can try uninstalling iTunes - it shouldn't remove your content, but make sure you have a good backup just in case something goes wrong - and see if matters improve. That way you'll know for sure. Alternatively you can try just stopping, or uninstalling, the background processes and see if that makes any difference.
Another possibility is your system's security software, which might be blocking or delaying the launch of some components.
FWIW, I haven't seen any change in the performance of either my Windows XP nor Windows 7 systems after installation of iTunes.
Regards.
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I have just bought Airport Express and now my Skype is slow. Is there a solution to this - everything else is ok

I have just bought Airport Express and now my skype is slow. Is there a solution to this - everything else seems to be working fine

Parrotcat wrote:
I have just updated to Lion and now my folders no longer show number of items on the bottom...
In the good old days of Snow Leopard, an open Finder folder had a border along the bottom of the window which could show the number of items in that window and the total available space on the hard disk or partition that folder resides on. That bottom border is gone in Lion and those two bits of information are gone with it. Is that what you're talking about? If so, I'd like to learn how to get it back too and "Show Item Info" is not the way.

My battery reads that it is 100% charged. However, as soon as I unplug it, it dies instantly. The battery lights are still functional, and everything else is working fine! What's wrong with my battery?

My battery reads that it is 100% charged. However, as soon as I unplug it, it dies instantly. The battery lights are still functional, and everything else is working fine! What's wrong with my battery?

Sounds like it may need to be replaced. Contact Apple.
Basic troubleshooting steps
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How to read file before executing everything else in VI

I am using the "Read from measurements file" .vi to read read in a .lvm file containing the data I want to use in my VI. I have two different files I need to read into the VI. After I click "run" the prompt comes up and I select my desired file, then the other prompt shows up, along with everything else running in the VI which is in a while loop, but I do not want anything to run in the while loop until the 2nd input is selected.
Is there anyway for the program to wait until those two files have been read in?
These are the "read from measurement file" vi's that I want to input the data with before having everything execute in the VI.
Solved!
Go to Solution.
Attachments:
Batch Training (2).vi ‏87 KB

jcarmody wrote:
It's a slight misstatement to call using the Error Out an "easy fix". That's the proper way to control execution order in LabVIEW, while using a Sequence Structure is a "fix".
Actually, the correct way would be to get rid of the local variable and turn the array control into an indicator or eliminate it completely. Is the array control even shown on the front panel?
While the error out is the second choice, it could possibly still lead to a race condition. Since the start of the while loop and the writing to the two local variables can occur in parallel righ after the last file dialog has completed, the error out alone is not 100% safe (well, it probably is, but why take the risk ).
cmersits,
Please show us your code so we can provide some guidance. I have the feeling that you are doing this way more complicated than needed.
LabVIEW Champion . Do more with less code and in less time .

Ok so I downloaded the iOS6 and now my iPod is reading my day and time and everything else to me I have to double tap my numbers to get in my password but my password won't even work can someone please tell me what's wrong

So I downloaded the iOS6 on my iPod 4 and after 2 days it starts to read me everything I mean from my time and date to my password I have to double tap in my password In order for numbers to show up but when I type them it just says it's wrong please help what can I do to fix this problem with out having to reset EVERYTHING

Triple Click your home button to turn off VoiceOver, or go to Settings > General > Accessibility and turn VoiceOver off.
https://www.apple.com/accessibility/ios/voiceover/

Hello Mac heads.! I just downloaded Onyx for tiger. All went well. But I try to launch onyx from my applications and it doesn't offer checking the S.M.A.R.T. status so I can check my disk. Everything else appears. Uninstall only, forums, website etc.

Hello Mac heads.! I just downloaded Onyx for tiger. All went well. But I try to launch onyx from my applications and it doesn't offer checking the S.M.A.R.T. status so I can check my disk. Everything else appears. Uninstall only, forums, website etc.

I think you should get Applejack...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15667/applejack
After installing, reboot holding down CMD+s, (+s), then when the DOS like prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 6 of it's things.
At least it'll eliminate some questions if it doesn't fix it.
The 6 things it does are...
Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.
Trash old Log files.
First reboot will be slower, sometimes 2 or 3 restarts will be required for full benefit... my guess is files relying upon other files relying upon other files! :-)
Disconnect the USB cable from any Uninterruptible Power Supply so the system doesn't shut down in the middle of the process.

The t.v. show I'm trying to watch won't load. It doesn't make any sense because I can watch everything else.

The T.V. show I'm trying to watch on my MACBOOK AIR won't load. I got it from the iTunes store last night. I'm not complaining that it's slow.It pauses halfway through when I try to watch it. And yet everything else has loaded. HELP!
p.s. every thing before that episode is nice and black. So are the first 11 episodes. Everything after that is grayed out but I could still watch it. But why?

If your apps are up-to-date then there is nothing to download to update...the app store is telling you there is nothing for you to download.
Why do you want to update all of your apps?

Slide bars slow EVERYTHING, I dont understand!!!!!

I have couple of scroll bars in my VI. It's big, and it does many things, millions of things, and well does.A big program that is.
However I when I needed to add couple of scrollbars it just SLOWS EVERYTHING miserably. And my CORE 2 Duo loaded FULL just because of couple of scroll bars!
I don't understand why slide bars in Labview are that SLOW? What's wrong with it?
This is just an example of my code, in attachment.
It is placed inside the loop. And the iteration of loop is set by a 100ms timer. But when I enable peace of this code, it BARELY does two executions in a second. When I disable it does about 10 executions just as intended, although the rest part of the code is bazillion times bigger and complex.
Any clue?? Or replacements??
Attachments:
Slide bar slow omg.PNG ‏8 KB

Look, we are trying to help here, but you need to cooperate too.
Nobody will steal you ingenious algorithms and sell them on e-bay. Nobody will laugh at your code. However, if you are lucky, some of it might get a honorary mention in the Rube Goldberg thread. That's considered an honor!
If you feel sick, you don't fax a picture of your finger-tip to the doctor for a full differential diagnosis. Right? So why attach a code image of an area covering only 1/bazillion'th of the code. Obviously, you cannot tell what's important for us, else you would also have shown a picture of the overlapping controls of the front panels.
Many here have 10+ years of programming experience and we've seen it all. We've seen the code with a bazillion property nodes and overlapping controls. Since each property node forces a switch to the UI thread and needs to execute synchronously, your style of programming (if we can call it that) alone can be 3-5 orders of magnitude more demanding on computing resources. If you keep programming like that, you'll run into the wall 1000x earlier than with equivalent efficient code. The community here is good at identifying performance issues. Just recently we were able to take a VI that took several hours to execute and tuned it so it did the same thing (actually more) in under 10 milliseconds.
If we don't see the code, our hands are tied. I cannot debug a picture.
If your stamp sized snippet is of any indication, you are one of these newbie LabVIEW programmers that have all controls and indicators nicely parked and disconnected in an empty area of the diagram, while the loop code reads and writes everything via value property nodes. I was hoping it's not, that's why i wanted to see the code. It is likely that you are (somewhat) experienced in text based code, which often causes issues when transitioning to graphical code. You tend to stick to old paradigms that are no longer suitable in the new environment. I strongly recommend to listen to our advice and change your coding habits as soon as possible. Once you get really used to bad habits, it will be more difficult to change.
As with any advice, you have two viable options. (1) take it. (2) leave it.
So, back to the problem at hand: Were you able to solve the problem? Do you still want us to help?
LabVIEW Champion . Do more with less code and in less time .

Can't get photos onto iPod. Everything else is OK.

When I try syncing photos from iTunes to my iPod I get the "The disk could not be read from or written to." error message. Everything else gets synced (music, video, podcasts).
I tried reseting my iPod, rebooting Windows, the software was just installed when I got the iPod so it should be fresh.
Any ideas?

Hello . I have the exact same problem . After playing with reset - reinstall and speaking to apple directly for over 2hrs. I have found that there is no simple solution . It must be an Xp problem . Customer support suggested that the problem may be remedied if I create a new Xp user and reinstall to that user . It did not work . However - if you want to get pictures on your ipod and you can get videos on your ipod then do as follows - use microsoft movie maker - free with Xp - to make a slideshow of your photos . Then convert the .avi slideshow into ipod format . Put the video slideshow on your ipod and enjoy . You can pause during the slideshow to show people individual pictures . Just a note I can now no longer get podcasts on my 30g video ipod . Starting to wish I kept my hassle free , itunes free flash usb mp3 player .

HT1390 I've rented & downloaded a movie on my computer in itunes, but it does not show up on my Apple TV. Everything else shows up on Apple TV, including my computer's movie library. When I click on the movie in Apple TV it says I've already rented it.

I've rented & downloaded a movie on my computer in itunes, but it does not show up on my Apple TV. Everything else shows up on Apple TV, including my computer's movie library. When I click on the movie in Apple TV it says I've already rented it and asks if I want to rent it again. No, I just want to watch it.

Unfortunately I have to if I download it on my computer. I have rented itunes movies before directly using the Apple TV and it worked just fine and I could stay in the living room. Without clicking that icon on my computer, there was no way to watch it.

My email no longer rotate although everything else does ???

My emails will no longer rotate although everything else does .. Tried turning off and on again at which it works for a little while then stops again...any ideas ...

Try quitting the mail app and restart the iPad.
Go to the home screen first by tapping the home button. Quit/close open apps by double tapping the home button and the task bar will appear with all of you recent/open apps displayed at the bottom. Tap and hold down on any app icon until it begins to wiggle. Tap the minus sign in the upper left corner to close the apps. Restart the iPad. Restart the iPad by holding down on the sleep button until the red slider appears and then slide to shut off. To power up hold the sleep button until the Apple logo appears and let go of the button.
You can try this as well and see if it solves the issue.
Reset the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons.

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