Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Oct 1999 12:53:16 +0200 | From | bert hubert <> | Subject | repeatedly reading ipchains rules causes ppp trouble |
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On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 02:42:20AM -0700, BJerrick@easystreet.com wrote:
> I get no hanging if I don't invoke an X client called "xgauge" > (homebrew); the one in question displays serial r/w rates, and reads > /proc/tty/driver/serial every 500 millisecs. (I thought I had ruled > out X clients as what was hitting this, but apparently I missed this.)
On a related note, I found that reading the relevant /proc files to get ipchains accounting statistics cause my PPP transfer to halt. I read the files once every second, all ftp transfers going on simply stopped. This under 2.2.12.
I have not investigated this further.
Regards,
bert hubert.
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