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 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)
Hrmph. So the solution is Don't Do That Then. Oh well, I'm off to buy a SCSI card and a Plextor :-) Thanks, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [the day is done but i'm having fun i think i'm dumb maybe just happy]
