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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by Case -The converter in foobar2000 uses very low priority by default and you said you haven't increased it. These encoders don't touch priorities so they do their tasks with leftover cycles. Memory consumption is no different between compiles.
You must have some high priority process(es) running on the same core as the UI processes and steal all the processing power from the UI operations. Or a sandbox goes haywire and consumes all the system memory. Swapping will make machine slow even with SSD.