On 25 Apr, this message from Michel D�nzer echoed through cyberspace: > On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 15:48, David Stanaway wrote: >> On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 08:13, Michel D�nzer wrote: >> > What clock speed etc. is that? I get more than realtime with a 667 Mhz >> > G4. The compression you want to achieve probably also matters, I usually >> > encode for 160 kBit/s average rate and leave the rest at defaults. >> >> Actually, it varies. I can get a little better than realtime when I am >> not ripping (Using cdparanoia, I get about 3x read rates from the TiBook >> DVD). I have the 500 MHz processor. > > Oh yeah, ripping bogs down the whole system very badly here despite DMA > and unmaskirq. Any suggestions for improvements are highly welcome > there.
IDE subsystem having long-held locks? The other day, due to a bug in my code, I was writing a 800MB-file to the IDE disk in my TiBook, which completely locked the machine up for around 15 seconds.... window manager completeley dead. No clock update, no load update, no mouse movement, no keyboard entry, nothing. Just disk noise telling me it's alive ;-) Also, often I get around a second of the same symptom when the disk is sync'ed out, or on spinup from sleep. As long as not everything is written to disk (or read?), the _whole_ system just sits and waits. Cheers Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. " -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
