From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262759AbUKMNqh (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Nov 2004 08:46:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262756AbUKMNqg (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Nov 2004 08:46:36 -0500 Received: from user-0c99gdv.cable.mindspring.com ([24.148.193.191]:2435 "EHLO tuxq.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262759AbUKMNol (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Nov 2004 08:44:41 -0500 Message-ID: <41960FC8.3040004@tuxq.com> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 08:44:40 -0500 From: "Steven E. Woolard" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040919 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Subject: Problem: 2.4.26/27 & 2.6.9 Audio CD Burning Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I've reproduced this problem on my system with 2.4.26, 2.4.27, and 2.6.9. When trying to burn an audio CD with cdrecord, the system load average will skyrocket (relitively speaking) up to 4 or 5 sometimes reaching 10 or higher. This does not happen with data CD's or at all with 2.6.7 kernel. I used scsi emulation (of course) on 2.4.26 and 2.4.27--not 2.6.9. Side Notes: DMA is enabled, I have tried downgrading cdrtools, and if I remember correctly it has the same problem in 2.6.8(.1). Hardware: AMD Athlon XP 2400+ 1024MB RAM VIA VT82C686 Southbridge (IDE Controller) LITE-ON LTR48246S CDRW Drive