-----Original Message----- From: Jon Pennington [SMTP:jpennington@atipa.com]
It should be noted that 6 months ago, the Kenwood 52x ATAPI could outrun the fastest ATAPI and SCSI-II CD-ROMs on >the market, so it's not a slouch, either.
<Pop> Don't say that Jon, that's when I got my Ultraplex wide. Oh well, another bubble burst. Tim
-----Original Message----- From: Jon Pennington [SMTP:jpennington@atipa.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 10:05 AM To: stuarthall@mailandnews.com; stuarthall@mailandnews.com; suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] [ot] time to create MP3's? Is my system slow?
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Stuart Hall wrote:
Mine took a whole CD, using "abcde" as a front-end, CDparanoia and gogo as the back-ends, and encoded 12 tracks (about 45 minutes of listening time) in about 10 minutes. I am going to do more substantial testing tonight, but I cannot help but think that it should go faster than that - perhaps running Xchat at the same time made it slow down a lot? I dunno.
hehehe...I do *exactly* the same thing. Or, I did, until I abandoned gogo...
Anyway, I appreciate the advice or any possible configuration options I might have missed. I believe I have SMP and Multi-threading turned on in these programs, and I know I have smp compiled into the kernel (and working).
That sounds perfectly reasonable. Two things: How many instances of gogo does abcde start? You should not start more than two (one per CPU). How fast and what type of CD-ROM do you have? Even with my FPU-challenged K6-III, gogo can often outrun my Kenwood 52x ATAPI CD. It should be noted that 6 months ago, the Kenwood 52x ATAPI could outrun the fastest ATAPI and SCSI-II CD-ROMs on the market, so it's not a slouch, either.
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