You need irqtune. You can set the serial ports to a higher IRQ priority than the disks. Bill > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tommiy Rant > Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 4:08 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] 7.2 and comms problems > > > Actually Charles I have. I later found out that I could not uncompress > bzip or rar files if they managed to get over about 20meg. > This got very > depressing and I reinstalled 7.1 to make sure there was/is no > problems. > 7.1 worked flawlessly! I reinstalled 7.2 a number of times and in the > end went to hdparm and enabled the options that 7.1 use to enable in > /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime. This FIXED all my > problems. I'm not > sure what the autotune parm in 7.2 does?? there is nothing in > the start > up scripts that use it (rgrep -r autotune *) so I'm not sure where its > used....I'm setting off in an attempt to discover what and how.... > > > Charles Curley wrote: > > > > On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 08:29:03AM +1000, tommiy wrote: > > > I've finished installing 7.2 and wooo it looks nice but > it appears to > > > have a serious problem for me. > > > > > > Basically if I have any serious hd activity....like > copying 2-300 meg on > > > my hd or using bzip to compress stuff then it causes the > serial port to > > > have no access time. Basically the serial comms almost > stops. If your > > > sitting on the net then almost everything stops....ftp > sessions go from > > > 5.2k/s down to 8bytes/sec. When the disk activity stops > then everything > > > starts back up again. This didn't occur with 7.1 and its really > > > unlivable with 7.2. > > > > > > Anyone have some idea before I shelve 7.2? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > Got your serial ports' IRQs set up correctly? > > > > -- > > > > -- C^2 > > > > No windows were crashed in the making of this email. > > > > Looking for fine software and/or web pages? > > http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. > >
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