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> Doh, forgot to cc to list.  Paste:

forgot to answer to list too ;)
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> What kind of system is it?  My 32x burner worked fine on an amd 760mp /
> duron 1300 system.
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mine is pentium 133, 192 MB RAM, fast 7200rpm 80GB IDE drive.

i found pipes to be a bottleneck.

from file cdrecord can record 52x without ANY problems

but even with

cat file|cdrecord -dummy ... it can't reach 32x

cat /dev/zero|cdrecord -dummy ... can't reach 40x


can i optimize pipes somewhat??

bigpipes are enabled.

will changing size to by for eg. 16*PIPE_SIZE instead of 4*PIPE_SIZE (64k)
help.