Re: bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?
On Sunday 14 October 2001 04:02 pm, Jason Boxman wrote:
> On Saturday 13 October 2001 05:54 pm, csj wrote:
> > Anybody else had a similar experience? I can compile without my meager
> > 56K connection stalling. But with a running bzip2 process ppp traffic
> > becomes so abysmal I even get disconnected.
>
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> Someone mentioned trying an IRQ priority scheduler or something. A google
> search turned this up, which appears to be on the money:
This program is in the "hwtools" package it seems.
> http://www.best.com/~cae/irqtune/
>
> I'll have to play with this next time I'm near the 486 (which is 100 miles
> away). Could be a while. Maybe it'll fix the problem.
>
> Good luck!
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