Hi Kean,
This has been covered many many times on this list - the last time was two
days ago.
You MUST wait for the media indexer (UMMDS.exe) to finish indexing before
launching DS. When CPU usage from UMMDS drops to zero it has finished
indexing. This can easily take 20 minutes or more on a busy DS with many
projects and a large amount of media.
Assuming you follow best practice and leave the DS workstation powered
24/7 then this should rarely become an issue, but it is important that you
are aware of it.
If UMMDS CPU activity never stops then it is possible that you have a
corrupted file (either a media file or the UMMDS database). In that
instance you should consider opening an issue with Support.
Regards,
Tony
> Hi Richard,
>
> I have waited for more than 20 min for it. Do you think something
> wrong with it. Also I took a long time to have the sequence sync with
> the media.
> For example, when I load a sequence with heavy layering and
> compositing effects tree that i have been working on for the past
> couple days, it took more than 5 min to be able see the media and to
> able to play back. The little green "S" icon on the right bottom
> screen was not lit till the media when back online. It cause a
> nuisance especially in clients driven environment.
>
> Do you think it got to do with the large amount of projects I have in
> my projects roots? I have about 15 projects under \\dsnitris
> \ds_projects.
>
> BTW, the UMMDS.exe still hovers around 50 % IN CPU when DS is launch.
> Is this normal.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Kean
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> On 20 Jan 2006, at 10:55 AM, Rich Torpey wrote:
>
>> Assuming it's a dual CPU machine, it's actually taking 100% of a
>> cpu during startup. After indexing is finished the load should drop
>> to zero. You really want to wait until it finishes before launching
>> DS.
>>
>> Richard Torpey
>> VP Engineering
>> Rhinoceros/MultiVideo Group
>> 50 East 42 Street
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>> kean au wrote:
>>> hi all,
>>>
>>> I have been monitoring cpu processes recently and found out that
>>> unmds.exe has taken 50% of the cpu. Even before DS was launch.
>>> Is this normal or I am just being paranoid.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Kean
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