Re: PPP and cdparanoia

2000-01-08 Thread Robert Waldner
On 07 Jan 2000 22:08:53 +0100, "Martin Bialasinski" writes: >* "Alisdair" == Alisdair McDiarmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Alisdair> No idea. You could email the author of cdparanoia and ask >Alisdair> him to work out a way of reducing interrupt usage. You could >Alisdair> report it as a kernel

Re: PPP and cdparanoia

2000-01-08 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 20:03:24 GMT, Alisdair McDiarmid writes: >No idea. You could email the author of cdparanoia and ask him to work >out a way of reducing interrupt usage. You could report it as a kernel >bug - ppp and /dev/ttyS* should have higher priority than PIO ATAPI >devices, perhaps. i cann

Re: PPP and cdparanoia

2000-01-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Alisdair" == Alisdair McDiarmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alisdair> No idea. You could email the author of cdparanoia and ask Alisdair> him to work out a way of reducing interrupt usage. You could Alisdair> report it as a kernel bug - ppp and /dev/ttyS* should have Alisdair> higher priority th

Re: PPP and cdparanoia

2000-01-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 08:30:01PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 18:42:30 GMT, Alisdair McDiarmid writes: > > >> This sounds reasonable, as the effect also appears when cdparanoia uses > >> only 20 % of the CPU. (K6-2 350 / 64 MB RAM) > > > >Hrmph. So the solution is Don't Do

Re: PPP and cdparanoia

2000-01-07 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 18:42:30 GMT, Alisdair McDiarmid writes: >> This sounds reasonable, as the effect also appears when cdparanoia uses >> only 20 % of the CPU. (K6-2 350 / 64 MB RAM) > >Hrmph. So the solution is Don't Do That Then. hrmph. so what for us who Already Did[1]? How to ease the pain?

Re: PPP and cdparanoia

2000-01-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 06:02:32PM +0100, Konrad Mierendorff wrote: > Robert Waldner wrote: > > I'm on a P166 w/ 32 MB RAM and the situations the same, personally I think > > that > > the problem is with the ATAPI-CDROM, which heavily puts forth io-load (not > > cpu-utilization, this could be fi

Re: PPP and cdparanoia

2000-01-07 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Robert Waldner wrote: > I'm on a P166 w/ 32 MB RAM and the situations the same, personally I think > that > the problem is with the ATAPI-CDROM, which heavily puts forth io-load (not > cpu-utilization, this could be fixed via the priority), behaving like a > interrupt-generator when ripping, of

Re: PPP and cdparanoia

2000-01-07 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 21:50:20 GMT, Alisdair McDiarmid writes: >Could someone test this on their machine for me and see if it occurs? I'm on a P166 w/ 32 MB RAM and the situations the same, personally I think that the problem is with the ATAPI-CDROM, which heavily puts forth io-load (not cpu-utili

Re: PPP and cdparanoia

2000-01-05 Thread aphro
often when ripping from an IDE drive cpu utilization goes through the roof, try reducing the speed at which you rip cds, i can rip and be online with no problem..i can rip and be online and play quake no problem..course my scsi drives seem to top out at 1X for reading CDA nate On Wed, 5 Jan 2000,

PPP and cdparanoia

2000-01-05 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I've noticed that if my machine is connected to the Internet using PPP, and I start to rip a CD using grip or cdparanoia (both use libcdparanoia), the PPP link heavily drops packets and often the line drops. This is A Bad Thing. It happens even wen cdparanoia is set to priority 20 (top shows that t