Re: Long pauses (IO?) whilst ripping DVDs

[Jens Axboe <axboe _at_ xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 02 2004, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Start transcode in one window, doing something like:
> "transcode -i /dev/hdc -x dvd -U file_name -y divx4"
> on a DVD ... probably pretty CPU intensive as well as IO.
>
> Now do ls in another window ... hangs for about 5 seconds before
> giving any output ;-( Anyone else seeing that? I do get a lot of
> "*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in nav_read.c:202 ***"
> messages as well ... but I always seem to get those from DVD stuff.

DMA or PIO? vmstat info would be very handy here.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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