High system load when burning audio CDs on VIA686B

I have been having this very annoying problem of very high system load when burning audio CDs. When burning a full audio CD at 24x, I have seen the load average reach 20 -- This, on a single processor AMD Thunderbird system. top shows 90%+ system proc usage, and, although the burn works, and the

Re: High system load when burning audio CDs on VIA686B

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 15:37, Len Sorensen wrote: I see NOTHING there that indicates if dma is on or off, only what is supported. The * does NOT indicate linux is using dma. /proc/ide/hd?/settings does, as might hdparm device, by itself. Your method most certainly does not. Sorry about