> > 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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