cdrecord performance
akonstam at trinity.edu
akonstam at trinity.edu
Sun Aug 1 21:00:04 UTC 2004
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.
>
> 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,
I would forget about cdrecord and use xcdroast. It is more pleasant
to use, has a gui interface, and allows you to control the process more
sensibly.
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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
One Trinity Place.
San Antonio, TX 78212-7200
telephone: (210)-999-7484
email:akonstam at trinity.edu
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