Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:41:51 +0200 (EET) | From | <> | Subject | Re: PLIP driver in 2.2.xx kernels |
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On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I have a question - Why does the PLIP driver does consume so much CPU ? > > I tried it today, and when i did ping -s 16000 dst_ip, the kernel consumed > > about 50% of the CPU time ( /proc/cpuinfo and /proc/interrupts follow). > > Any ideas ? > > It has to bang on the parallel port controller the hard way, there is no > useful hardware support on a basic parallel port for the kind of abuse needed > for PLIP > (sorry for the late reply) I used plip with kernel 1.2.8 and had no problem with it...The machines that I'm using now are far superior than the old ones... Why shouldn't it work now ?
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