Re: PPP and cdparanoia

[Konrad Mierendorff <mierendorff@gmx.net>]

Robert Waldner wrote:
> I'm on a P166 w/ 32 MB RAM and the situations the same, personally I think that 
> the problem is with the ATAPI-CDROM, which heavily puts forth io-load (not 
> cpu-utilization, this could be fixed via the priority), behaving like a 
> interrupt-generator when ripping, of course PPP via a asyncronous serial link 
> relies on many, many interrupts, too, one per asynchronous packet, I believe...

This sounds reasonable, as the effect also appears when cdparanoia uses
only 20 % of the CPU. (K6-2 350 / 64 MB RAM)

- Konrad