Hi there,
I have XP Pro, pretty fast dual core CPU, 512 MB of memory but
whenburning DVDs computer is very sluggish, I noticed CPU utilization
is low under 10% but memory goes up to 480 MB. Is burning DVDs a
memory and disk intensive operation? Should I close all other
applications while burning?
Thanks a lot, T

"Tester" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi there,
> I have XP Pro, pretty fast dual core CPU, 512 MB of memory but
> whenburning DVDs computer is very sluggish, I noticed CPU utilization
> is low under 10% but memory goes up to 480 MB. Is burning DVDs a
> memory and disk intensive operation? Should I close all other
> applications while burning?
> Thanks a lot, T

Yup, pretty sad isn't it? All of this technology and the bus is still
overloaded and it is still the bottleneck.

--
Bill

The disk drive is the "Slowest" component in any PC. Even with SATA
3.0 Gigabyte drives you'll be hard pressed to get a sustained throughput
of beyond 90 Megabytes. The buffering effects aren't nearly as severe
if you use a SATA DVD-RW. Even with that most - SATA optical drives
run in a UDMA Mode 2. Hopefully we'll start to get some relief when
the newer Hybrid disk drives become more commonplace. The other
issue is the single/"LARGE" drives in use today. It's better to use more
physical drives to distribute the workload. I guess you could improve
things with RAID but for home users that introduces other problems.

"BillW50" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Tester" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> Hi there,
>> I have XP Pro, pretty fast dual core CPU, 512 MB of memory but
>> whenburning DVDs computer is very sluggish, I noticed CPU utilization
>> is low under 10% but memory goes up to 480 MB. Is burning DVDs a
>> memory and disk intensive operation? Should I close all other
>> applications while burning?
>> Thanks a lot, T
>
> Yup, pretty sad isn't it? All of this technology and the bus is still
> overloaded and it is still the bottleneck.
>
> --
> Bill