This one time, at band camp, I wrote: >I burnt 3 coasters out of 3 with gtoaster, and only 2 out of 5 with >gcombust.
Make that 2 coasters out of 7 now! >As for system load, burning over USB takes up next to nothing, no user space >load, no kernel space load! Meanwhile ripping using my IDE DVD-ROM takes up >so much load from system calls, that my ppp connection is guaranteed to drop >out due to starvation. Ok, it's been pointed out to me that this not only an unfair comparison, it's not even a comparison. FWIW: my dvdrom is at least 40x or 52x or something ridiculous, the burner is only 6x read. However, i've found that I can rip from both at the same time (2.5 cds from the dvdrom in the time it takes to rip 1 from the burner), ripping from USB took negligible load compared to ripping from IDE, which I suspect is due to multiple factors of being a) a lot slower than the IDE disk, and b) not requiring the CPU to look after data transfers. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
