Package: dvd+rw-tools
Version: 7.1-6
Severity: normal
Hello.
Brasero using growisofs to burn a DVD is too slow in this computer, it writes
at 100 Kib/s (not a typo), the computer becomes too unresponsive, etc.
This is an Intel Celeron 1.1 Ghz with 256 Mib PC133 RAM.
If when it is writing I renice the process to priority 0 (it runs with -20 by
default) everything starts working nicely, the desktop becomes very responsive,
the writing speed is good, etc.
For now what I did is doing a chmod 755 /usr/bin/growisofs in my rc.local so
that it cannot gain realtime priority, works like a charm.
This is an up-to-date Squeeze system.
So I guess the questions are:
1. Why growisofs is SUID root and why it needs such a high priority?
2. Could it be that it has some coding bug that in this slow computer eats
too much CPU polling for something and not allowing that something to do its
job since growisofs is in a busy loop using all resources because it has
realtime priority?
I have access to this computer only once a week for a brief period of time,
but if there is something that you want me to try let me know.
Thanks a lot for reading and maintaining this packages!!!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=es_UY, LC_CTYPE=es_UY (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to
es_UY)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dvd+rw-tools depends on:
ii genisoimage 9:1.1.11-1 Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
dvd+rw-tools recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dvd+rw-tools suggests:
pn cdrskin <none> (no description available)
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