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Re: highest priority?



>From: Hanspeter Roth <hampi@rootshell.be>

>> It may be that you are hit by Linux ps missfeatures :-(

>And what are »Linux ps missfeatures« ?
>(I'm running cdrecord and cdda2wav on FreeBsd.)

It ignores that fact that there is more than historic UNIX priorities from
the 1970's.

>> they run on a even much higher priority

>So is it necessary or is it just for fun?
>(cdda2wav freezes the display on a ATAPI Ultra-ATA2 drive if -S is
>omitted.)
>I've run cdda2wav at -4 (setpriority()) and didn't encounter a problem.

If you have such problems, this looks as if you did not properly set up the 
drive or as if the Kernel is unable to support DMA.

Jörg

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