Following up to myself (again)
the rest of this story belongs in the "no duh" category. i found that
cdparanoia was niced down to 19 on my desktop machine while on the
laptop it was set to 0 (using grip, which allows you to set a nice
value for the ripper and encoder). i think this may have been
this helps, and i guess i can understand why, since it looks like that
flag allows other interrupts to be serviced while the cdrom dma
interrupts are being handled.
however, the system goes from totally unusable to marginally usable
after enabling this flag. in contrast there's no noticible load
rob pfile wrote:
>
> I've posted on a similar topic before. the short story is that i could
> not make the dvd/cdrom drive in the tibook work for audio extraction
> unless i used the ide-scsi package.
>
> while that worked in the sense that cdparanoia could see the drive,
> system performance dur
I've posted on a similar topic before. the short story is that i could
not make the dvd/cdrom drive in the tibook work for audio extraction
unless i used the ide-scsi package.
while that worked in the sense that cdparanoia could see the drive,
system performance during cd ripping is terrible. the
4 matches
Mail list logo
