[vorbis] Oggenc problems in apache or cron

[Greg Wooledge]

Michael Smith (msmith at xiph.org) wrote:

> On Thursday 22 May 2003 17:33, Mr Shanon Loughton wrote:
> > "oggenc -b 128 *.wav"
> > I think it is a buffer problem since both apache and cron limit their mem
> > to a couple of KB - however cdparanoia works fine because it writes
> > directly to the hdd on the fly.

> oggenc certainly doesn't buffer the entire file, but the entire oggenc process 
> may well take up almost 2 meg of ram (or possibly more if you're using 
> managed modes, though you aren't in this example).

Oggenc also uses a substantial number of CPU cycles, whereas cdparanoia
usually does not.  In addition to checking memory limits, he might
want to check for CPU time limits.


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