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EvilC5

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Sep 22, 2010
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Hanover MD
So I bought a Mini server last week with the main goal of only holding all of my A/V media to stream to apple tv. probably overkill but when I was comparing, the server with more processor more ram, and more HD space seemed more appealing for the price than having to upgrade a regualr mini....until I got home and started setting it up.

so after 1 reload because I probably messed up service permissions, I just went barebones on the 2nd try. I created a user account for itunes and movie transcodes.

so the last few days I have taken a stack of my sons dvd's and started encoding them to ATV format, and noticed yesterday that it seemed really slow so I checked the usage monitor and it said it was at 100 percent CPU for user and 8 percent for system. is a users account provisioned CPU usage to keep the server stable for other users to access resources and if so, how can I reprovision it to give my single account more or even all of the CPU power?

I have googled, mroogled, read thru my server book, and cant seem to find the answer....am I just going to have to live with it or am I missing something?
 
...I checked the usage monitor and it said it was at 100 percent CPU for user and 8 percent for system.

That's not normal operation. What actual processes are using up all the CPU time?
 
could the nice/renice unix command to add priority to handbrake and anything else that im running in an account other than root?
 
handbrake, itunes, and a safari window was all that was running.

Ah OK now I understand. OS X Server does nothing inherently different than "client" OS X with the amount of CPU time available to a user logged in at the desktop. Depending on the tool you're using to view CPU usage, 100% may represent both processors being at maximum use.
 
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