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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
when it starts showing high disk activity does it taper off after a while or does it stay high? And do you have the content server running? Or scheduled news downloads?
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I don't know if the disk activity tapers off because what happens is that my computer gets increasingly slow (to a point) and then not as responsive. So I end up quitting Calibre.
I don't have content server running and I don't have scheduled news downloads.
I think this has happened maybe three times or so in the recent past. I will pay attention to it closely if it happens again. I don't know what triggers it, and the it may not even be Calibre but it could be.
Typically I'm adding books to Calire (I have a ton of books I need to add and update the metadata). Sometimes when editing the metadata, I open up the PDF in Acrobat Professional for some info (read bits of it to figure out how to categorise it etc.). Sometimes I may "optimise" the PDF after I've added the PDF to Calibre. Optimise basically means reducing the file size and removing unnecessary content. It seems that somehow some combination of these activities may start disk thrashing (done by Calibre?).
I have 2GB of RAM, and 30.24GB of free space on my internal drive and 34.8GB of free space on my external drive where the data folder for Calibre resides.