2.6.8 and cdrecord?

deadmoo · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 55 Location: MD

This is fixed in gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.8-r3 according to the changelog:

http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources/ChangeLog

Moloch · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:00 pm Post subject:

The latest nitro-sources (nitro5 at the moment) fixed it for me. This morning I was burning an audio CD, while burning I was listening to some mp3's, that's it, I normally browse the web or other things at the same time. Everything was going smoothly, memory usage remained low, cpu usage for cdrecord around 5% I guess, wasn't paying much attenttion. XMMS was only using 3-5%. At the end of the CD maybe around track 9 of 11 everything got choppy. Buffer was getting unstable.

Before choppiness: FIFO at a steady 100%(assuming drive buffer) and buffer at a steady 97%(assuming system memory buffer)

During choppiness: lowest point was at 13%, not too sure I started to panic at this time. Quickly stopped XMMS and kept an eye on torsmo (cpu, memory usage monitor & etc).
After the burn was completed cdrecord said burnfree was never used and the buffer's lowest point was at 13%

I played the CD and it seemed fine, skipped to the last few tracks and did not discover any obvious problems. During all of this I didn't notice memory getting high, but like I said I was more in a panic making sure I don't create another coaster.

I preceded to burn a second audio CD with nothing open, min buffer was at %85, still should be higher. CD came out fine though.

This was burning as root actually, because cdrecord does that realtime priority setting. I'm wondering if I should be burning as a user and/or try running cdrecord with schedtool -I since I am using a kernel patched with the various sched patches.

I've finally been happy with bashburn as I've had a difficult time parting from Nero on Windows. IMHO cdburning is the one area Linux is really struggling at. I'm an FVWM user, ex-KDE user, I still prefer QT/KDE apps, but K3B has always given me problems.

EDIT:
Almost forgot, system specs
Athlon 1800+
768 MB ram
Lite-On (CD only) 52x32x52x

deadmoo · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 55 Location: MD

Moloch · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 6:17 pm Post subject:

robfish · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 2:22 am Post subject:

I now have my audio CD's burning again with 2.6.8 gentoo-dev-sources-r3.
Yahoo!!!
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Boohbah · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 3:09 am Post subject:

MasterMind · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 4:25 am Post subject:

I disabled the patching of fbsplash. I hope it's going to work

(I use the bootsplash patch.. And it don't patch if it is allredy patched with fbsplash...).
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