On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 11:27:41AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Nicolas wrote: > > Well, you're lucky. Because on my system, if I launch a CPU consuming > > task, the burning process can stops for some 1/10th of a second. > > Make sure the interrupt-unmask flag is set for your hard drives; see "man > hdparm". On many systems it is not the default (because it can, rarely, > be dangerous) but your system will effectively lock up for a fraction of a > second every time a large disk access occurs, if this flag is not set. > It's pretty much a necessity for activities like DVD burning. > -- > Matthew Skala
Matthew, In fact, I applied what's written in the cinelerra manual: file:///home/oxstone/cinelerra.html#SPEEDING%20UP%20THE%20HARD%20DRIVE I got such lines in my /etc/init.d/local file: hdparm -c3 -d1 -u1 -k1 /dev/hda Nicolas. _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
