On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 09:58:33PM +0100, Arnould Nazarian wrote: > > > (I haven't heard of you for a while, or didn't I just pay attention?, anyway nice >to hear from you), > > my main problems are (amongst others): > > > > (I read everything, but when I have nothing to write about the QL, then > I shut up). > > > > - and the winner is: slave block problem (same ole, same ole) > > Why exactly do slave blocks prohibit high speed data streaming? I still > do not understand.
because it can take SMSQ as long as 2 minutes to load 1 MB of data from a fast HD. The same HD that does 800K-3MB/s on the same machine under Linux. The other problem is very poor multitasking. Read/Write to most devices simply locks the whole machine untill the request completes, it doesn't even use the time the drives need to seek data. You have no chance to continuosly read sound/video data from disk and play it at the same time even if the hardware is perfectly cappable of it. Bye Richard
