Re: PPP and cdparanoia
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 06:02:32PM +0100, Konrad Mierendorff wrote:
> 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)
Hrmph. So the solution is Don't Do That Then.
Oh well, I'm off to buy a SCSI card and a Plextor :-)
Thanks,
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alisdair mcdiarmid alisdair@jml.net
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