Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: PLIP Madness | Date | Sat, 27 Feb 1999 17:34:18 +0000 (GMT) |
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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.
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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