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Am Mittwoch 11 Juli 2007 23:12 schrieb b.n.: |
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> Hi, |
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> In the last couple of weeks (that is, from one of the last updates) I |
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> have noticed that k3b (or, better, one of the programs he uses to write |
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> dvds) is much more resource demandin than before. Usually my gentoo |
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> desktop (an old AMD Duron 1800, x86 stable) was able to work quite good |
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> while burning a dvd. Now it becomes extremly slow to react, almost going |
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> to a grinding halt (i.e. keypresses taking seconds to be read). Memory |
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> consumption is negligible, but CPU consuptiom seems to have increased a |
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> lot. |
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> Anyone else has noticed this problem? Any hint? |
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> Sorry for the very generic question, but I don't know what further info |
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> could be useful. |
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> m. |
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Seems like your drive does no longer uses dma but pio. Call hdparm -d /dev/dvd |
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as root to check it. If it is not active, try to activate it using |
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hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd. |
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