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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: iijppp and kernel ppp device Date: 14 Jul 1995 12:05:20 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3u5mi0$gk0@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3u3co4$hur@Mars.mcs.com> <DBo868.802@net-tel.co.uk> <3u4v3n$5ie@agate.berkeley.edu> <mschoene.805713265@hobbes> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <mschoene.805713265@hobbes>, Martin Schoenert <mschoene@Math.RWTH-Aachen.DE> wrote: >jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: > > Have you tried giving the ppp process real-time priority? (see > rtprio(2) :-) > >Why the smiley? >Do you think the 'ppp' process would starve the rest of the system? I don't think it'd necessarily starve it, though that depends a lot on the resources it's using up. It would certainly drastically reduce the system's proclivity for swapping it out though. The smiley is because it's a gross solution to the problem.. :-) Jordan