On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 07:59:18PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all! > > I often used to burn CDs and DVDs on my Mandriva Cooker system without any > problems. I used the combination of the command line tools "mkisofs" > and "growisofs" to burn a DVD. > > Today I noticed that when running growisofs to burn a DVD, the system became > much less responsive: moving windows was less smooth, the "about-to-start" > bumping icons in the X cursor were slower, and the system felt more sluggish > etc. Top displayed growisofs taking about 5% of the CPU. [snip] > /dev/hda and /dev/hdb are IDE/PATA drives, while /dev/sda is a SATA > disk. /dev/hdc is an IDE DVD+RW writer. /dev/dvd is an unused CD-ROM > Reader/Writer and DVD reader.
Is DMA working properly? What does hdparm say on each of them? -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
