Re: PPP and cdparanoia
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 08:30:01PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 18:42:30 GMT, Alisdair McDiarmid writes:
> <ioload>
> >> 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.
>
> hrmph.
Yeah :-)
> so what for us who Already Did[1]? How to ease the pain?
No idea. You could email the author of cdparanoia and ask him to work
out a way of reducing interrupt usage. You could report it as a kernel
bug - ppp and /dev/ttyS* should have higher priority than PIO ATAPI
devices, perhaps.
> btw, ripping from /dev/hdb, encoding with gogo (nice +20) _and_
> burning on /dev/scd0 (which is ide-scsi-emulation, in fact
> /dev/hdc), speed=2, at the same time gives a high load, but works
> fine otherwise.
Uh, what? It stops PPP packet loss? And if you're not burning a CD on
/dev/hdc, PPP drops packets?
> is there some mechanism that balances the load between the two
> ide-controllers or something?
Probably not.
> 1: buy an atapi cdrom
ATAPI CDROMs really do suck.
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