Thread: Calibre "chokes" on large ebook conversion
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Old 01-17-2016, 09:45 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by jgrzadka View Post
My job has been running 3700 minutes. My machine has 12 GB of RAM and an i7 processor. I am not convinced it will ever finish converting the epub to pdf.
You are probably IO bound.
Also, Calibre can not use more than a single core on a job

You are doing a complex conversion from simple text (HTML) into a page layout.

Let it grind until it is done or crashes.
You still have those other cores available to play Solitaire
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