[TriLUG] cdrecord & cpu usage

[Corey Mutter]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 10:11:15AM -0400, Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 April 2003 10:06 am, Jim Ray wrote:
> > unless you want lots of coasters, don't use your computer while burning
> > CDs.  the process is very hardware intensive.  otherwise, you'll need to
> > upgrade to 350 v8 dual exhaust 4 barrel carb.
> 
> Ahem...
> 
> I burn CDs and browse the net and do irc and use KDE 3.... all with a "flimsy" 
> K6-2-400 with 256 MB of RAM. No coasters.
> 
> Salut,
> Sinner
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I second this - patience may help (try burning at 12x or 16x instead of
24x, for example).

You could also try without the front-end to see if that makes any difference
(cdrecord -v speed=16 dev=0,1,0 -data xxxx.iso). Substitute speeds and
devices (you can figure out the device id with "cdrecord -scanbus") as
appropriate.

Corey