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Originally Posted by chaley
@Hoods7070: how much RAM does your laptop have? If not "enough", you might have started using virtual memory, making calibre use much more disk resource.
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Originally Posted by Hoods7070
It's got 4GB, as does my PC.
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I run Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit and at idle running my AV, Firewall, and, HIPS Windows reports I'm using 3.85 GB of RAM. As a disclaimer, I'll say that I'm also running the Chrome OS (I say OS because Chrome does all sorts of strange things to your computer. It might as well be an OS).
4GB RAM may be your problem. . .but I doubt it. As long as you've not got 10 browser windows open at the same time and subject to paging I think thrashing is more your issue. (Also DON'T turn off your page file. Please. I only mention that because you said your main rig's drives are "optimized".)
So thrashing:
http://www.sevenforums.com/performan...mpared-xp.html
I'm running Calibre stock, nothing but the default plugins.
Calibre uses betwen 125 & 163 MB of RAM on my system. Given that you've got 4GB of RAM, that probably shouldn't have much of an effect on your system (unless yours is using 3.85 GB just to run the OS more or less like mine in which case you may need to buy some RAM).
Running my defragmenter, music player, and scanning the drive for duplicate files, Calibre took 6 min 40 sec to copy my
monster 303 book library.
And this is on your standard 7200 RPM drive.
Copying the whole library took me 2 min 10 sec when I eliminated the thrashing.
Also, as BetterRed said above, maybe it's time to run CCleaner and decrapify your machine. I would suggest you run Malwarebytes, AdwCleaner, BleachBit (with all options checked, except for FREE DISK SPACE). Do not check Free Disk Space unless you want you leave your machine running this task overnight. Then reboot. Then defrag.
You'll have to sign into all your sites on your browser again, but small price to pay for a leaner, snappier system.
If Calibre is still running slow after all that, I'd nominate your AV as your culprit. It takes some AV's a little while to update their whitelists. Calibre 2.1 may not yet be on your AV's whitelist and so subjected to a bit of extra scrutiny and thus thrashing.