On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 10:32:23PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > >
> > > the question is - is it normal so huge CPU load? older was using about
> > > 5% with 4x speed. this can't record over 16x without underrun. at 12* it
> > > uses about 60% CPU while more are system than user.
> > >
> > > is IDE so bad in that case? it is using Ultra/33 mode, same as hard drive
> > > which is able to give 16MB/s
> >
> > Doesn't it downgrade to a lower mode ?
> no.
> 
> > Also, Are you burning data or audio CDs ? audio uses blocks which are
> 
> data CD.
> 
> found that:
> 
> a) i can burn at full speed on quite loaded system without problems!!!
> b) pipes slow things down
> c) mkisofs is the slowest part.

Yes, mkisofs | cdrecord won't work well for file tree with a lot of
files, from my experience. 

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