hi all, i am ssh'd in to an old 486DX2-66 with 32Mb which is happily running as my PPPOE router and firewall. the system load is fair, between 0.18 and 0.50 depending on what i do. the machine has an external modem on ttyS0. when i start minicom, i can happily dial my way around. i also have a remote machine on which an mgetty is listening on a modem port. when i connect to that machine, minicom reports a connect, i see the mgetty login prompt... and that was about the last thing i can do with the system - the load shoots up to 10 or more. the `top` process i have running in another ssh session doesn't even update anymore. so i am wondering... an external modem really isn't a performance hog, and neither should be a getty connection via minicom, so what's going on??? when i establish a pppd session to the same client the load doesn't go wild. what gives? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck sic transit discus mundi.
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