Hi Frederick! * Frederick Page writes: >Markus Plail wrote on Sat, Oct 12 2002: >>>Again: the idle time is important.
>>I'd say system time is important. >I simply don't know (you might be right). I just watched the "idle" >time and got quite a good feedback from it during my tests with the >ATAPI writer. >>High system time normally means that something is wrong. In this case >>PIO is used instead of DMA. >I guess many roads lead to Rome ;-) High system time (or low idle >time) IMHO both indicate PIO. Not necessarily. If you write a RAW CD on a quite low-end system at high speeds, you might see low idle time due to to libedc calculation. This time is assigned to cdrecord. All with DMA enabled. If PIO is used the CPU usage should be assigned to system. of course - in the end - a low idle time is never good, but high system time almost surely means that something's wrong. regards Markus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
