At Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:38:09 -0700, WMFender-Westwind wrote: > > Hi all > > I have a Sony laptop PCG-FXA32 running Debian SID, kernel > 2.4.20 (hand-rolled) with an odd problem. I have an external > hardware modem (Motorola modemsurfr) on ttyS0. Every time > there is heavy load on the machine, e.g. opening a program or > when cron runs, downloading wll stop completely. As soon as > the activity gets back to normal, downloading will resume. Any > ideas? Other debian machines I have now and in the past have > not done that. My /etc/ppp/ options is default, and my > connection was set up by pppconfig. I am pasting in the > .config for my kernel below. I have had several different > kernel configurations on this machine, but did not save the > configuration files. They all showed the same problem, so > maybe this is a hardware issue?
[...] Is it really load or just heavy disk activity? Maybe it's a DMA problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
