cdrecord performance

[James Drabb]

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).
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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,

Jim Drabb
Senior Programmer
Davenport, FL USA