Multitasking During the Batch Process

You can select how many CPU cores of your computer should be used simultaneously. The available number of cores depends on your computer hardware.

Each task uses one core; therefore the multitasking setting represents the maximum number of tasks that can be run in parallel. It is not always recommended to use the highest settings for the following reasons:

• If you want to continue working with your computer during batch processing, you need to spare power.

• The disk is slower.

• Graphics performance and user interface responsiveness are reduced.

• If your processor uses hyper-threading, half of the cores are virtual and do not bring as much power as real cores.

If many large files are written, using multitasking is not always recommended, because the files can become more fragmented on your disk. The resulting files might be slower to read, unless you are using SSD drives.