Re: bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?
On Sunday 14 October 2001 19:54, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Robert Waldner wrote:
> > >> I get similar problems when burning CDs, though I've had it
> > happen with
>
> [...]
>
> > > try nice when using the bzip2 (or whichever program causes
> > problem)
> > This sounds more like a problem with the priority of the
> > interrupts. If you've got an serial modem, try setting the priority
> > of the IRQ the port uses higher. This helped me when I was on a
> > serial connection. Can't remember the name of the package, though.
> > YMMV.
>
> Also, use nice to increase the priority of the ppp process and
> cd-burning process.
>
> The standard Linux kernel has a lot of latency problems which
> aggravate the problem. You could also try installing the latest
> low-latency paches and see if that helps.
I've had no problems burnin' while surfin' (or downloading the lastest
Linux-Mandrake). I suspected the ppp problem was due to the stress test
bzip2 was putting my CPU thru.
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