On Wednesday 08 September 2004 04:11 am, Steve Harris wrote: > 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. Latency timer settings perhaps. > > - Steve
