Re: can anyone explain why ??
> > When I'm ripping a CD with cdparanoia my dialup ppp connection doesn't work. I don't seem to be able to transfer at all. The link stays up but no or very little
> > data seems to be able to flow. But if I stop cdparanoia everthing is fine.
> > This is on a debian woody system running 2.2.17 kernel
>
> I really don't know, but it's maybe an overload of the
> processor/disk. Look at the load average of your system when running
> cdparanoia (you can use top or uptime).
>
nope. cdparanoia gets 30% cpu on a pentium 133 with a 24x cdrom. the disk is
nearly idle (iirc). the remarkable point is, that it causes about 10-20%
system cpu time.
so i guess, the driver is not the best in this regard - or is it an inherent
problem of atapi drives?
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