Re: bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?
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.
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