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, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: alisda >I've noticed that if my machine is connected to the Internet using alisda >PPP, and I start to rip a CD using grip or cdparanoia (both use alisda >libcdparanoia), the PPP link heavily drops packets and often the line alisda >drops. This is A Bad Thing. It happens even wen cdparanoia is set to alisda >priority 20 (top shows that this is the case and it's not just alisda >pretending). alisda > alisda >I'm using kernel 2.2.14 and the machine is a PII-400 with 128MB of RAM alisda >and an ATAPI CDROM drive. alisda > alisda >Can this be fixed by changing some configuration? Is it a alisda >bug/misfeature in the kernel, or something like that? I haven't alisda >tested it on my SCSI machine yet: possibly the IDE PIO stuff is the alisda >problem. alisda > alisda >Could someone test this on their machine for me and see if it occurs? alisda >-- alisda >alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] alisda >[the day is done but i'm having fun i think i'm dumb maybe just happy] alisda > alisda > alisda >-- alisda >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null alisda > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 2:11pm up 139 days, 2:08, 3 users, load average: 1.73, 1.70, 1.63
