From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 18 21:21:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8502E16A4CE for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:21:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nic.ach.sch.gr (nic.sch.gr [194.63.238.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09CB543D45 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:21:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (qmail 17363 invoked by uid 207); 18 Oct 2004 21:21:34 -0000 Received: from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr by nic by uid 201 with qmail-scanner-1.21 (sophie: 3.04/2.19/3.81. Clear:RC:1(81.186.70.65):. Processed in 2.376514 secs); 18 Oct 2004 21:21:34 -0000 Received: from dialup65.ach.sch.gr (HELO gothmog.gr) ([81.186.70.65]) (envelope-sender ) by nic.sch.gr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 18 Oct 2004 21:21:31 -0000 Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i9ILLRv8000972; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:21:27 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i9ILLPDG000970; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:21:25 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:21:25 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Thomas Moyer Message-ID: <20041018212125.GA896@gothmog.gr> References: <417425D7.9010909@psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <417425D7.9010909@psu.edu> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two Questions ( atapicam related and scheduler related) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:21:39 -0000 On 2004-10-18 16:21, Thomas Moyer wrote: > I been following the progress of the 5.3 release and I thought they were > changing the shceduler from SCHED_4BSD to SCHED_ULE? Also I recently > acquired a DVD+-RW and was wondering if I should stick with using burncd > and growisfs with the standard /dev/acd0 or should I switch to using > atapicam? Is there any sort of a performance gain? What are the > advantages and disadvantages of both? FYI, Using burncd has been broken for me in -CURRENT since early June. The process reaches the stage of fixating, but then my kernel panics with a message for `illegal phase'. I didn't really *need* to write CD-ROMs until today, and I finally tried atapicam with cdrecord. It works like a charm here.