Issue with computer freezing up

[emmdotenn]

hey everyone,

New to the forum and wonders of usenet. I recently installed the SABnzbd+, Sickbeard, and couchpotato combo on my computer, and things have been working wonderfully. That is until I decide to watch a video or go on youtube while they are running - out of no where my computer would freeze up (sound slows down and can't move mouse or anything, nor can I ctrl+alt+delete), resulting in me restarting the computer. It seems like the issue goes away when I close Sickbeard and Couchpotato. Has anyone experienced similar situations?? Hopefully you guys can help me out here.

I am running Windows 7 64 Bit as OS. Thanks everyone!

[shypike]

Running par2 in parallel to anything else that's disk-intensive is challenging for most systems.
Windows in particular is not good at distributing disk access bandwidth.
Do you have "par2 flags" set in Config->Switches?

Consider pausing post-processing during viewing hours.

[emmdotenn]

Thanks for your reply shypike. I checked and yes I do have enable multicore par2 checked in my config. should I keep it on? or switch it off?

[emmdotenn]

Also, just 5 minutes ago I tried to turn couch potato on, and just doing that the computer froze up. I'm almost suspecting couch potato to be the root of the issue here....

[shypike]

Thanks for your reply shypike. I checked and yes I do have enable multicore par2 checked in my config. should I keep it on? or switch it off?

Depending on extra settings par2-multicore may start thrashing the disk.
Make sure you don't have -t+ in the extra field.

[emmdotenn]

Thanks. I checked and nothing is in the parameter... I guess I'll have to keep monitoring the situation

[shypike]

You might want to use -t- here.

[emmdotenn]

Thanks. I will see if that helps