Maxing out my CPU!

This is the first time I've managed to do it with this computer: My CPU is operating at 100% capacity. Yes, both cores, maxed out!

I'm doing this courtesy of Kdenlive, the great video editing suite for GNU/Linux. I edited out the ad breaks on my recorded DVD of "The Orange Line", and I'm putting it straight back into DVD format.

I'm a little disappointed with the speed - should I be? It's going to take 30 minutes to encode 40 minutes of footage from DVD format to DVD format, using both cores. It's probably Kdenlive's rendering that is taking longer - if I was just using a regular transcoder it would probably be much faster.

Recently I've had a bit of a kernel panic problem, with the computer freezing and the keyboard lights blinking on and off. I added to an existing bug report and followed some suggestions, and we'll see if it happens again. Somebody suggested that it was probably a thermal issue, which is bunkum - the last time it happened, my CPU was not under load, and right now both cores are at 43 degrees C under 100% load, so it's got to be something else.

Even though the CPU is working at 100% capacity, the computer is still surprisingly responsive. Maybe it's not a surprise, considering that I've seen this before on Linux.