On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:21:12PM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > On a sort of related point... writing a CD (at 28x), top shows 80-85% > system CPU usage. That's with an Athlon 1800XP (1.53GHz). Feeling the > heatsink, however, it's running as cool as it usually does. I reckon > this must be because it's spending lots of time waiting on the IDE bus.
Yes. We recently went through a *very* long thread about IDE suckitude recently, specifically it's relationship to the RTC. You might notice your RTC drift by several minutes when burning a CD. I wish I could find it in the archives, now... -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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