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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.development:18507 comp.os.linux.misc:28626 comp.os.386bsd.questions:14179 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3923 sci.electronics:83072 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc,sci.electronics Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: 16550 detection Message-ID: <CynDrE.3Lo@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <TYTSO.94Oct31162517@dcl.mit.edu> <MICHAELV.94Oct31211019@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <TYTSO.94Nov1182557@dcl.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 15:59:38 GMT Lines: 14 In article <TYTSO.94Nov1182557@dcl.mit.edu> tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o) writes: >At 38400 baud, it takes quarter a second to send 1024 bytes. If your >operating system has an interrupt latency that's that long, you have big >problems..... If your interrupt latency is .25 seconds, you certainly have got big problems. Why on earth would it be so long? -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, HCRC, Edinburgh University R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk Ooooh! I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.