[Lancaster] Re: the kitchen network.

[Richard Robinson]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 07:25:14AM +0100, Andy Baxter wrote:
> >
> > do you know roughly how much CPU it takes to burn a CD at maybe 8x? i.e.
> > what kind of machine would we need for this, and could it do anything else
> > as well?
> 
> answering my own question - i'm just writing an iso to CD/RW on a DVD drive. 
> it's writing at 4x, and using about 0.6% CPU on a 1.4GHz machine. So I guess 
> one of the old pentiums we already have would do fine.

I don't think very much computation is involved in burning a CD. You
might have to avoid having other stuff thrash the disk / ide bus though,
the data has to keep coming fast enough. Possibly more modern ones avoid
this, I'm not sure (I got a SCSI burner, to avoid this issue. Which it
seems to).

-- 
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem