07-26-2011, 04:11 PM | #1 |
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is there any way to time out a conversion?
i was converting a few books that i wanted to take with me on a trip.
i set everything up and set it to batch convert 25 files to epubs before i went to sleep. when i woke up it was still converting the second file.. at hundreds of minutes in progress. is there any way to set a time out to skip the conversion if it takes loner than say 10 minutes??? thanks for any info.. nutz |
07-26-2011, 04:38 PM | #2 |
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No there is not.
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07-29-2011, 03:52 PM | #3 |
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Sounds like a good idea to add.
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07-31-2011, 06:42 AM | #4 |
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Seconded
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07-31-2011, 08:21 AM | #5 |
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Why? As long as there is no error, the conversion is still running, regardless of how long it takes. Why would I want to interrupt it just because it is taking longer than X minutes?
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07-31-2011, 10:20 AM | #6 |
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Hmm, I have just converted a large number of books.
1) My system was converting more than one at a time. So if one hung, it would keep coverting. 2) When it flat could not convert a book, it returned an error message and kept on coverting. 3) I did have oe book that took a very long time to convert (more time to convert that one that to convert over 100 other ones). |
07-31-2011, 06:53 PM | #7 |
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This happened to me earlier today, set up to batch convert 6 books, came back half an hour later to an overheated laggy laptop that hadn't even done the first conversion yet...
I was converting Lit to Mobi if that makes any difference. |
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Either let your machine run the 1 to 24 hours needed to complete the conversion (my longest was 6 hours) or set the book aside and look for a new source for that book. |
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08-01-2011, 10:22 AM | #9 |
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One reason why I wanted a timeout too was that, there e.g. there can be 4 threads running simulataneuosly (one per core?), On the 1st job the conversion of the book started to take ages, then another and so on until all Job threads were in use. I had many other tasks, they did not get done by when I needed them. 2 were really important. I know I could prioritise the order but a failsafe timeout would be great.
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If the latter, there will be no effect. If the former, then my situation would not change much, these jobs lasted over 10 hours, the 1st job would have been reduced to 2.5 hours approx, and that would be still too long. It would have to do all four in serial before it got to the important jobs. The CPU gets real hot on these long jobs evidenced by the fan kicking in on high rpms, so there is another reason to desire this facility. |
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08-01-2011, 11:59 AM | #12 |
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A timeout wouldn't change your situation either. The conversion would stop, but it wouldn't be finished, so you'd have no converted book.
Your fan switching to higher RPMs isn't necessarily bad, that should happen if you're running CPU intensive tasks, which a conversion definitely is. If you feel your system is getting too hot, try monitoring the temperature, but that would be a hardware problem, not a Calibre problem. Computers do enjoy getting the lint removed once in a while, by the way... Edited to add: As far as I know, conversions are singlethreaded, so if you start only one conversion, it'll take (mostly) the same time as when you'd start as many as you have cores available. |
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You can manually stop any conversion by clicking on little circle in bottom right corner
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NOT maxing out all cores should help :thumbsup (AFAIK a thread does not spread across cores. Start task manager and tick show seperate... then run 1 conversion) . Limiting the cores used leaves some for your other tasks (one of your complaints) |
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If these books are your creation then save them out of Word as html filtered and the conversion time will drop drastically. The fan / cpu settings are by design. This is a hardware issue, if you don't want your CPU running as configured then tweak the Bios so it runs slower. If it used to run cooler then buy a can of air, open it up and spray out the dust that has accumulated. |
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