Am Mittwoch 11 Juli 2007 23:12 schrieb b.n.: > Hi, > > In the last couple of weeks (that is, from one of the last updates) I > have noticed that k3b (or, better, one of the programs he uses to write > dvds) is much more resource demandin than before. Usually my gentoo > desktop (an old AMD Duron 1800, x86 stable) was able to work quite good > while burning a dvd. Now it becomes extremly slow to react, almost going > to a grinding halt (i.e. keypresses taking seconds to be read). Memory > consumption is negligible, but CPU consuptiom seems to have increased a > lot. > > Anyone else has noticed this problem? Any hint? > > Sorry for the very generic question, but I don't know what further info > could be useful. > > m.
Seems like your drive does no longer uses dma but pio. Call hdparm -d /dev/dvd as root to check it. If it is not active, try to activate it using hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd.
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