On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: > >> I get similar problems when burning CDs, though I've had it happen with [...] > > try nice when using the bzip2 (or whichever program causes problem) > > This sounds more like a problem with the priority of the interrupts. If > you've got an serial modem, try setting the priority of the IRQ the > port uses higher. This helped me when I was on a serial connection. > Can't remember the name of the package, though. YMMV.
Also, use nice to increase the priority of the ppp process and cd-burning process. The standard Linux kernel has a lot of latency problems which aggravate the problem. You could also try installing the latest low-latency paches and see if that helps. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
