On Sunday 14 October 2001 19:54, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > 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.
I've had no problems burnin' while surfin' (or downloading the lastest Linux-Mandrake). I suspected the ppp problem was due to the stress test bzip2 was putting my CPU thru. -- Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
