Re: PLIP Madness
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 27 Feb 1999 17:34:18 +0000 (GMT)
> 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.
Yes. Welcome to plip. The CPU is sitting doing tight loops and waggling
lines by hand for every 4 bits transferred. The parallel port wasnt intended
for that paticular use
Its normal.
Alan
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