I experienced that xcdroast on alpha doesn't supply the fs=4000k, which is a bit annoying. So what about a file for /etc/rc.boot/shmem in the (alpha) package for cdrecord similar to: #!/bin/sh # set shared memory maximum to 8MB (4MB is too low for cdrecord) echo "8388608" > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax This works for me. ---david