Re: [SoX-users] Multiple instances of SOX

[Rafal M. <rz...@ic...>]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:22:45PM +0530, Nilesh Deshpande wrote:
> I have a pair of wav files that need to be mixed. It takes around 35 seconds
> for this mixing to happen.
> However, when I invoke multiple instances of SOX to mix 10 such pairs
> simultaneously, it takes almost 350 seconds. Th is is actually the same time
> taken if I were to mix the pairs one after another.
> Is there something I am missing?

Mixing two files you use resourses and you hit some limit, typically CPU
efficiency (could be also disk speed). When you share the same limited
resource between 10 processes the time is 10 times longer.

R.
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