Computer locks up when renaming mp4 file after remux

[Cody380]

Hello, Ok I recently been recording movies the past week, and had no problems until yesterday.Until the last recording I did, after recording finishes, OBS showed the rumux time left when it creates an MP4 copy of my movie (which is no longer than 1 minute) Now, it doesn't show that little load bar when remuxing. The movie plays perfectly fine, both the MKV and the mp4. But now, when I rename the MP4 file, it locks up my pc for about 10 seconds. I have to click the x on upper right corner, then a few seconds passes and goes to a black screen,then it shows my desktop . I am unable to rename the mp4, move file to a folder, and unable to even delete the mp4 unless i reboot my computer, then it can be renamed, moved, etc.. This is strange because it never happened before yesterday. Could this be using to much resources, or is because my computer is older? I even tried this by uncheking the remux option in advanced settings, and manualy remx to mp4 when finished, and it still locks..unable to rename. Thank you.

https://obsproject.com/logs/B-efUbPSpL6gt4Gl

 

[konsolenritter]

Sounds like your computer is stuck while flushing the os' cache buffer to disk.
Is it an SSD? How full is it? Even AV software may assume the renamed file(s) as new ones and scans them first.

All of these processes have higher priority than your user gui and/or the file explorer.

 

[Cody380]

Thanks for replying, konsolenritter. I know what happened now, I was closing OBS before it was finished with the remuxing process. I recorded a few movies and was able to rename them now. How dumb of me. I am sure that's what happened,at least I hope so. My hard drive is really full so I had to delete a lot of stuff. It is SSD I think. The computer sure runs slow after recording with OBS, and if I run a game or something after recording a movie, its really sluggish unless I reboot. But still, this is sure faster than VLC is :) I tried diferent settings, but one of them makes the file so much larger, and I am pressed for space atm.

 

[konsolenritter]

If your computer seems sluggish for such actions, just leave him calm down everytime he has to do demanding tasks.

If you reboot before those processes completely finish you will earn an unstable system, maybe corrupted files and so on.

Be a little more patient with your system.

 

[Cody380]

I'll remember that, thank you. How long does it usualy take for a computer to wind down after a heavy task?

 

[konsolenritter]

If the program itself ended correctly (task dependent, how long it takes) you can assume, that five or ten seconds later all things written should have made it thru the os' filesystem buffers down to the disk. It was an invaluable advantage that older computer systems and notebooks had activity led's for their disk activity. So everyone could see when the flicker has gone mostly.

Todays smartest meter is still the task manager then, which tells you about cpu, gpu and disk usage in the moment (win10 for instance).

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

Beware running with a full SSD. that was almost an assured way to brick older SSDs. Recent SSDs are better, but with TLC/QLC drives, wear levelling is even more critical and spare space is required to accomplish that with any reasonable performance.

As for how long for a system to settle down.. it really depends... @konsolenritter offers a good, generic rule-of-thumb, BUT depending on security software, OS background tasks, number & speed of storage drives, other apps/activity, etc... can cause a huge variance in the answer. Or, use something like Task Manager/Performance Monitor and look for yourself and know, vs guestimate

 

[Cody380]

Beware running with a full SSD. that was almost an assured way to brick older SSDs. Recent SSDs are better, but with TLC/QLC drives, wear levelling is even more critical and spare space is required to accomplish that with any reasonable performance.

As for how long for a system to settle down.. it really depends... @konsolenritter offers a good, generic rule-of-thumb, BUT depending on security software, OS background tasks, number & speed of storage drives, other apps/activity, etc... can cause a huge variance in the answer. Or, use something like Task Manager/Performance Monitor and look for yourself and know, vs guestimate

If the program itself ended correctly (task dependent, how long it takes) you can assume, that five or ten seconds later all things written should have made it thru the os' filesystem buffers down to the disk. It was an invaluable advantage that older computer systems and notebooks had activity led's for their disk activity. So everyone could see when the flicker has gone mostly.

Todays smartest meter is still the task manager then, which tells you about cpu, gpu and disk usage in the moment (win10 for instance).

Sorry for the delay , Thank you Konsole and Lawrence for your reply's. Ill keep those things in mind. I just got my portable hd, so I removed a ton of stuff off of my pc. So as far as the storage situation, I am in the clear now :) I am sure things will be faster and smooth now that I removed so much stuff. I been giving things a chance to cool down after recording as you advised and keeping an eye on task manager also. SO far things going much better. Much appreciate your advice and knowledge !:)