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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!mn6.swip.net!seunet!news2.swip.net!karon.dynas.se!karon.dynas.se!not-for-mail From: mikko@dynas.se (Mikko Tyolajarvi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: iijppp using 100% CPU even when modem idle? Date: 18 Jun 1996 09:45:31 +0200 Organization: Dynasoft AB Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4q5mqr$a2p@spirit.dynas.se> References: <mandrews.834976294@bob.wittenberg.edu> <Pine.SOL.3.91.960617212617.17095B-100000-100000-100000-100000@nujnuj.interaccess.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: spirit.dynas.se Assuming you're running 2.1R, have you tried the ppp from -stable, rather than the one in the distribution? It compiles as-is and contains a bunch of bugfixes. The least it did for me was to relieve me of occasional core-dumps... /Mikko Rory Imua Lampert <rory@interaccess.com> writes: >Hey there, the same thing happens to my machine. It does not depend on >the modem I use...Practical Peripherals internal or USR Courier External. >Ocassionally it will just start using 80%-98% of the cpu. This has been >pushing me to use pppd, but I'd rather have it fixed than a work-around. >Rory Imua Lampert >rory@interaccess.com >On 17 Jun 1996, Mike Andrews wrote: >> This one's been driving me nuts for a long time, but as I'm functional >> regardless I've been too lazy to ask about it until now... >> >> How normal is it for iijppp to take up 100% of the CPU, even when the >> link is totally idle, and thus the kernel is seeing no comm interrupts? >> top indicates it is taking about 80% kernel mode and 20% user mode time. -- Mikko Työläjärvi (mikko@dynas.se) <Insert cheesy quote here> DynaSoft, Dynamic Software AB