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SubjectRe: PLIP Madness
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>I noticed a few weird things FTP installing rh5.2 on a box.
>The problem however was on the "server". Whenever the
>box was pulling data from the "server", the server became
>irresponsive, typing lagged, mouse lagged horridly, and top
>showed that the kernel was at times of datatransfer spending
>60% of its time in the kernel.

This is an occupational hazard of using PLIP. Data transfers are done by
polling at both the sending and receiving ends.

Unless you think performance has gotten worse compared to a previous kernel
there's probably not much that can be done.

p.



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