Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] ripping a cd slows my clock and my modem grinds to a halt
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 08 2004 - 11:11:34 EEST
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 08:27:13 +0100, robcanning wrote:
>
> > > when ripping a cd my clock slows down and my modem grinds to a halt.
> > > any ideas why this is happening?
> > > i'm using redhat9 and grip 3.0.4
> >
> > Probably you need to turn on DMA for your cdrom.
> >
> > Regards...
> > Michael
> Thanks Michael,
> i don't think this is the problem.
> anyone on the LAU list have any ideas?
Its more likly to be the opposite, if you have DMA on the IDE DMA
controller can hog the bus. Try turning DMA off, your CPU load will go
through the roof, but it might stop this behaviour, if it does there
could be something that can be done about it.
- Steve
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b28 : Wed Sep 08 2004 - 11:14:26 EEST