>From: Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Just a thought on making cdrecord smarter for Linux...
>If a recorder has (claims to have) Burn-proof capability, it would be nice
>to run the burner at normal priority and with a small fifo, since the only
>drawback would be slightly slower burning.
>Perhaps this could be a flag, then if the user selected that option any
>problems would clearly be of his/her own making.
>Just a thought, posted from a machine which is VERY sluggish at the
>moment, doing end-of-week backup.
Your proposal would not help unless you told cdrecord to use 512 MB for FIFO.
Try to contact the authors of the Linux memory management system.
About 4 years ago, Solaris was "sticky" too when I did write CDs.
After Sun added some special features that helped to separate FS IO needs
from other needs.
J�rg
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