* "Alisdair" == Alisdair McDiarmid <alisdair@jml.net> wrote:
Alisdair> No idea. You could email the author of cdparanoia and ask
Alisdair> him to work out a way of reducing interrupt usage. You could
Alisdair> report it as a kernel bug - ppp and /dev/ttyS* should have
Alisdair> higher priority than PIO ATAPI devices, perhaps.
You can do this with irqtune from the hwtools package.
Ciao,
Martin