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From: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ATAPI CD-R lags system to hell burning in DAO mode; but not in TAO
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:59:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020731225953.GA29020@vitelus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D48511A.C31443A3@zip.com.au>

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:05:30PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> This is presumably because the machine is full of memory which
> is dirty against a slooow device.

I don't seem to have sysctl support in my kernel right now, so I can't
verify this until I reboot.

I did notice that both cdrdao and cdrdao set realtime scheduling
priority. I thought this would surely answer everything, but burning
as an unprivileged user causes the same interactvity (and NFS
throughput) problems as before.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-31 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-31 20:30 ATAPI CD-R lags system to hell burning in DAO mode; but not in TAO Aaron Lehmann
2002-07-31 21:05 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-31 22:59   ` Aaron Lehmann [this message]
2002-07-31 21:45 ` DervishD
2002-08-02 13:52 ` Anssi Saari

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