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country0129 · 06-16-2012, 08:16 AM

I'd queried the forums the other day concerning what I thought was excessively high CPU usage when converting Ebooks.

You folks have alleviated my suspicions of something amiss with the problems I cited. However, I did surface what I think is a glitch with the new upgrade: I "X'd" out of the program after trying to convert one of those pesky *.pdf books, crunched it for about 45 minutes, and I gave it up for a lost cause.

I abandoned anything I was doing with Calibre and started doing something else simple, like checking email or something, I forget. I noticed that the 'puter was a little sluggish; so I opened the task manager to peruse open applications. Nothing amiss. However, when I opened the process manager, I found two Calibre applications still running though I'd closed the program. Each of them was still trying to render the *.pdf's I'd been working earlier. Wish I'd have jotted down the name of the process, but I do remember it was something like, "pdfconvhlpr" but don't quote me about that. Just it was weird that Calibre still had a process going after the progam had been "closed." It was nothing important, for it was easily stopped, but I thought the developers might wish to know it.

06-16-2012, 08:16 AM	#1
country0129 Country0129 Posts: 55 Karma: 506306 Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Louisiana Device: Kindle, Kindle Fire, PC	Process Still Active after Calibre Closed I'd queried the forums the other day concerning what I thought was excessively high CPU usage when converting Ebooks. You folks have alleviated my suspicions of something amiss with the problems I cited. However, I did surface what I think is a glitch with the new upgrade: I "X'd" out of the program after trying to convert one of those pesky .pdf books, crunched it for about 45 minutes, and I gave it up for a lost cause. I abandoned anything I was doing with Calibre and started doing something else simple, like checking email or something, I forget. I noticed that the 'puter was a little sluggish; so I opened the task manager to peruse open applications. Nothing amiss. However, when I opened the process manager, I found two Calibre applications still running though I'd closed the program. Each of them was still trying to render the .pdf's I'd been working earlier. Wish I'd have jotted down the name of the process, but I do remember it was something like, "pdfconvhlpr" but don't quote me about that. Just it was weird that Calibre still had a process going after the progam had been "closed." It was nothing important, for it was easily stopped, but I thought the developers might wish to know it.