[TriLUG] cdrecord & cpu usage

[Jason Tower]

when an IDE device totally sucks up CPU cycles and makes the system 
unresponsive, it is often because DMA is turned off.  hdparm can tell 
you whether DMA is on or off (check the man page for the exact syntax).

jason

On Tuesday 22 April 2003 10:00, zzd wrote:
> When burning ISO images to cdrom, I find that I am totally unable to
> do anything else during the burn process, including move the mouse or
> change to alternate windows. I like to use Eclipt which is a good GUI
> front end to cdrecord, and when I use the top command, it shows
> cdrecord at over 40% cpu.
>
> So, how do I (re)nice the cdrecord command to use less CPU, so that I
> am at least able to read/write emails while at the same time, burning
> a CDROM? I tried "nice --adjustment=10", but this did me no good. The
> whole nice thing is a bit confusing. Any help/direction appreciated.
>
> z
>
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