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 course PPP via a asyncronous serial link > relies on many, many interrupts, too, one per asynchronous packet, I > believe...
This sounds reasonable, as the effect also appears when cdparanoia uses only 20 % of the CPU. (K6-2 350 / 64 MB RAM) - Konrad
