cdrecord performance

[fredex]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 01:59:13PM -0400, James Drabb wrote:
> James Drabb wrote:
> >Hey group,
> >
> >I am runing FC2 with kernel 2.6.7-1.  My system is an Athlon 2800+, 
> >512MB 400MHz DDR and an ATA 133 drive.  When I try to burn an audio file 
> >with cdrecord, the system becomes very unresponsive while the disk is 
> >being burnt.  top show only about 2% CPU usage, yet the mouse is very 
> >jerky and doing any tasks during the burn are very, very slow (normally 
> >the system is very fast).
> <snip>
> 
> No one has any experience with something like this?  Does anyone else 
> have a similar issue?  My mobo is an NForce2 based MSI K7N2.

Nope, no problems of that sort. My MB is a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 (rev 2)
board, Athlon XP 2600). It uses a REaltek 8169 10/100 lan chip (there's
also gigabyte lan support but I'm not using it). CD burning is fine,
fast, and no problems on the system at the same time.

Have you looked to see if your hard drives and CD burner have DMA
enabled? If not it MIGHT account for this sort of problem. Perhaps.

Fred
> 
> Does anyone have an suggestions on how I might go about trying to see 
> what is causing the problems?  Could it be the drivers for the mobo?  I 
> do notice that the reverse engineered forcedeth driver for the NVidia 
> nic has some issues.  For example, sometimes when I boot (espcially a 
> cold boot), I cannot get to the net from my cable modem, nothing I try 
> has seemed to work.  However, if I reboot in to WinXP and the reboot 
> right into FC2, the forcedeth driver works like a champ.
> 
> Should I look into newer versions of these drivers?  Maybe CVS versions?
> 
> Thanks for any help on this,
> 
> Jim Drabb
> Senior Programmer
> Davenport, FL USA
> 
> 
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