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Old 07-06-2009, 05:18 AM   #404
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
As of calibre 0.6 there will always be n calibre-parallel processes present, where n=2*number of processor cores. When calibre is not doing anything, those processes are sleeping and shouldn't be using any computer resources.
I have a single-processor single core system with XP Pro SP3. I find that the number of calibre-parallel processes varies between 5 and 8, whereas you suggest it should be more like 2. As you say most of them seem to be idling, but they also do not seem to be swapped out to release their memory (23MB per instance). The number does not appear to be constant and gradually increases over time suggesting that some processes that should die may not be doing so. The number currently never gets that high as after a few hours of running Calibre always crashes for me in the MSVC DLL. The crash seems to happen even if Calibre is idling.

I am not too worried about these superfluous callibre-parallel processes other than it appears to not be the expected behavior. Do you want me to open a ticket on this?
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