> If you start those in parallel, the system will just be reading the > second and later copies straight from the buffer cache; no I/O > involved, surely...?
That's the hope. But what if one burner takes 10 seconds longer to initialise? How big's the drive read cache? I can't test lacking multiple burners, but having only one reader process seems safer. Worth a try though of course. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

