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BetterRed · 08-13-2013, 02:02 AM

@sobi, can you be a bit specific, which calibre features are slow - conversion, scrolling through book list, searching, downloading metadata.

Conversion can be cpu intensive, scrolling the booklist and searching can be disk IO intensive, and metadata down loads can be network bound on slow links or slow servers.

It could be that the disk is spinning down when its not used for a few minutes to save power, and the ATOM processor is not renowned for its speed, it was an Intel attempt to compete with ARM w.r.t. power consumption.

BR

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BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,779 Karma: 30237628 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@sobi, can you be a bit specific, which calibre features are slow - conversion, scrolling through book list, searching, downloading metadata. Conversion can be cpu intensive, scrolling the booklist and searching can be disk IO intensive, and metadata down loads can be network bound on slow links or slow servers. It could be that the disk is spinning down when its not used for a few minutes to save power, and the ATOM processor is not renowned for its speed, it was an Intel attempt to compete with ARM w.r.t. power consumption. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 08-13-2013 at 02:11 AM.