X264 crash

[juGGaKNot]

About 4 hours ago i did 6 at a time, worked fine

2 hours ago i tried 8 at the same time and they all crashed :

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll105/juGGaKNot4cs/th_slowsistem.jpg (http://s286.photobucket.com/albums/ll105/juGGaKNot4cs/?action=view&current=slowsistem.jpg)

What could be the problem ( user retarded is not a problem ), i have a x2 4000+ with 4 GB of ram, windows xp sp2 32 bit,

thnx, cheers.

[Sharktooth]

not enough memory. windows is even warning you!

[juGGaKNot]

So the "theoretical" 4 gb are enough for only 6 encodings at a time or should i set a bigger pf ?

[burfadel]

Well for a start, 4gb is not the amount of memory you have, its 4gb - video card memory - address space for other computer components.

If you run a 4870x2 for example, with 2gb of ram, the max available to the system under xp/vista 32 bit is only around 1.7GB!

Most systems with 1gb video cards would cut back to around 2.7. The 3.3GB thing is on the assumption that the video card is only 512mb.

Running a large page file so you can use more x264 instances is bad, you'll cause a slowdown. It will actually be slower than running less instances

[Arshad07]

8 x264 encodes at a time! Even on my quad i never do 2 x264 encodes, and you're doing 8 on a dual core!! :confused:

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Unless x264 is bottlenecked by a slow single-threaded input, there is no need to run several x264 instances in parallel.
One single instance of x264 can fully utilize up to 16 cores (http://avidemux.org/admWiki/images/8/84/X264_16_cores.png) or even more...

Also the more instances of x264 you run in parallel, the more you will suffer from HDD thrashing, cache misses and so on ;)