Is there anyone that is running a website that lets users convert movies? Does anyone know of a way to best do this for a massive amount of people ot where the load averages don't just drop the machine to its knees? I have a dual Xeon 3.6Ghz with 1Ghz frontside bus and 4G of ram all scsi its the newest dell poweredge 2850 2u rackmount server. And i am offering video conversion and if i get more than 10 people doing this at once the load averages of the machine go up to about 50.00, 50.00, 50.00 Is there anything else I can do or any other programs that freebsd can use besides ffmpeg that doesnt use so much cpu? Or is there a better way to setup a system to handle this type of a load? If anyone has any ideas please let me know. I really want to offer this video converting but not sure I can if its going to rape machines like this. Or is there a special type of a server and equipment that i should buy thats built to do this kinda stuff?