Thank you guys. :-) Muchos Gracias.
On Saturday 29 November 2003 02:18 pm, D. Joe Anderson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:02:04PM +0000, kleer wrote: > > Is it ok to run other applications while burning a cd? > > Depends on what kind of hard drive chain you have, what speed > you burn at, what kind of buffering you have (hardware and > software), what applications you're running, and so forth. > > If you have SuperMegaUltraSpeedy SCSI drives and a screaming CPU > and you're burning at 1X from another drive while playing some > Minesweeper-type-thing at nice level 19, you should be OK. > > If you're trying to build a kernel and glibc on a low memory, > high swapping 200MHZ pentium in parallel with burning at 32X and > all you have is a single 5400rpm IDE drive sharing a controller > with your IDE burner, you might just plan on making some > coasters. > > --Joe
