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.
I'm glad I'm not alone. I have an old school 486 with a 56K external modem and whenever dpkg does its thing, my connection seems to stall. It also stalls when I load a complex set of iptables rules in ip-up.d. Someone mentioned trying an IRQ priority scheduler or something. A google search turned this up, which appears to be on the money: 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!
