I do only one thing one this server - encoding videos by ffmpeg
.
And sometimes it does work ok, sometimes it's really slow.
I run the same command just for a test:
$ sudo time ffmpeg -i test.mp4 -c:a copy -vf 'drawbox= : x=0 : y=0 : color=invert : t=2' output1.mp4
ffmpeg version n2.2.15 Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the FFmpeg developers
built on Apr 30 2015 13:20:09 with gcc 4.8.2 (GCC) 20140120 (Red Hat 4.8.2-16)
......
16.24user 0.04system 0:16.30elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 60972maxresident)k
0inputs+6088outputs (0major+15811minor)pagefaults 0swaps
After 5 hours I run it again, because I saw it starts working slow again.
$ sudo time ffmpeg -i test.mp4 -c:a copy -vf 'drawbox= : x=0 : y=0 : color=invert : t=2' output1.mp4
.......
163.41user 0.84system 2:46.90elapsed 98%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 60988maxresident)k
0inputs+6136outputs (0major+15814minor)pagefaults 0swaps
As you can see it took 10 times more time than the first time. (1)16.24user
(2)163.41user
Any ideas how can it be fixed?
ffmpeg
runs.