Re: Strange interrupt behavior in 2.2.0(and pre)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 02:43:22 +0000 (GMT)


> One other problem is that the esound daemon (esd) gives so many interrupts
> (about 300/s) that using the serial driver is impossible. Just gets a lot
> of fifo rx overruns. Making ppp connect is just impossible, but when I kill
> esd, ppp works just fine again (same for irda drivers).

Thats a lot of audio interrupts - more than I'd expect. What soundcard
are you using. The only one that might load a machine a lot is the Cyrix
MediaGX - and that didnt seem too bad

Alan

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