Quote: HI. When i produce a AVCHD video a popup block appears that states (High Handle usage by power director exe), is that something to be concern about? Nothing seems to affect the video or crashes the program. It appears every time i produce for about 10 seconds. GPU,nvidia GTX 580 cpu, intel core i7, 2600k ,16 gigs ram. Graeme

There is a check box in Preferences, that you can uncheck and not get that warning.





Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

I'm not an expert on CPU processing but high handle usage is a (sometimes accurate?? according to exactly what system measures it) warning that a program is using a lot of CPU resources. In itself it may (probably) not mean anything untoward - in fact it may show that the program in question is performing as you want it to. Typically gaming and graphics intensive programs have high handle usage.

If you want to observe it, start up task manager, click on the view tab, open the select columns, and scroll down and check the handles box. You will then see the handle usage of each process.

For example, my system shows 964 for skype running in the background and 29,265 for PD10 open with a project (amongst the 119 other processes running) as I type this.

Cheers
Adrian Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. (see below)
Confucius
AMD Phenom IIX6 1055T, win10, 5 internal drives, 7 usb drives, struggling power supply.

Quote: I'm not an expert on CPU processing but high handle usage is a (sometimes accurate?? according to exactly what system measures it) warning that a program is using a lot of CPU resources. In itself it may (probably) not mean anything untoward - in fact it may show that the program in question is performing as you want it to. Typically gaming and graphics intensive programs have high handle usage.

If you want to observe it, start up task manager, click on the view tab, open the select columns, and scroll down and check the handles box. You will then see the handle usage of each process.

For example, my system shows 964 for skype running in the background and 29,265 for PD10 open with a project (amongst the 119 other processes running) as I type this.

Cheers
Adrian

Actually, "handles" has nothing to do with CPU utilization. It has to do with accessing various system resources. It's pretty hard to explain without getting very technical very quickly, but you can think of the number of handles as the number of system thingies that a process is using. Your program says "gimme a thingie" and the system replies "here's a handle to your thingie."

The thingies might be big, small, or even completely abstract; so there's no way to relate the number of handles to the amount of memory, file space, etc. being used.

I don't actually know if the individual CPUs can be referenced by way of handles. It wouldn't surprise me, since I don't know how else you'd make processor affinity work. CPU utilization is unrelated in any case. I could write a very small program that would use at most three handles while simultaneously using 100% of a CPU.

As for Carl's comment, that's a pretty odd message for a program to throw at a user. It's more like something the programmers would use for debugging. Why not say "HD files are pretty big, you know - you might want to get a cup of coffee or tea"?

Whatever -- it wouldn't be the first time a program displayed a peculiar message. From debugging messages to Easter eggs, there's all kinds of stuff lurking around in released code. Jerry Schwartz

Thank you Jerry, my misinterpretation of "resource usage".

I believe that the OP's message might be from another monitoring program, I seem to recall that Norton users could monitor handle usage but I've never used it (or seen the message) myself.

Cheers
Adrian Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. (see below)
Confucius
AMD Phenom IIX6 1055T, win10, 5 internal drives, 7 usb drives, struggling power supply.

Quote: Thank you Jerry, my misinterpretation of "resource usage".

I believe that the OP's message might be from another monitoring program, I seem to recall that Norton users could monitor handle usage but I've never used it (or seen the message) myself.

Cheers
Adrian

Actually, now that you mention it, that sounds very much like the kind of message Norton would display. Jerry Schwartz

I routinely get a "high cpu usage" message from Norton when the computer is working hard, but the pop up is labeled as being produced by Norton. There is no mention of a handle.
Sorlie

Two more cents worth.

I too use Norton. I get a high CPU Usage Pop-up all the time during Producing, when using my 32bit XP rig (not the 64bit i7 so much). Still, the videos ultimately Produce just fine.
There has however (as mentioned by Samuel L. above), never been any mention of “Handles” in the Norton pop-up message.

And the generating of this Pop-up has never been associated with, or impacted by, whether I have the Import High Def Video notice in Preferences, checked or unchecked.


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