On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:02:05PM -0800, Carl Lowenstein spake thusly: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 11:37:59 -0800, Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I'd be willing to bet your CPU was getting maxed because of issues > > with your driver, rather than the md5 calculations. Depending on how > > You know, I have been using computer hardware for nigh on to 40 years > now. And I have not recently seen such a misunderstanding of hardware > vs. software speeds.
Heh....I assumed Christopher was implying that some combination of excessively frequent interrupts due to the IDE/CDROM driver and context switches to userspace to calculate the md5sum was causing the slowness. -- Tracy Reed http://ultraviolet.org This message is cryptographically signed for your protection. Info: http://copilotconsulting.com/sig
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