cdrecord performance

[Wolfgang Gill]

On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 16:00:04 -0500, akonstam wrote
> 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.
> -------------------------------------------
> Aaron Konstam
> Computer Science
> Trinity University
> One Trinity Place.
> San Antonio, TX 78212-7200
> 
> telephone: (210)-999-7484
> email:akonstam at trinity.edu

Xcdroast is only a GUI frontend to cdrecord. So it is still be required when
using Xcdroast. I run Xcdroast and it works fine for me.

Wolf
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