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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!interaccess!nujnuj.interaccess.com!rory From: Rory Imua Lampert <rory@interaccess.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: iijppp using 100% CPU even when modem idle? Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 21:44:12 -0500 Organization: InterAccess, Chicago's best Internet Service Provider Lines: 16 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960617212617.17095B-100000-100000-100000-100000@nujnuj.interaccess.com> References: <mandrews.834976294@bob.wittenberg.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: nujnuj.interaccess.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <mandrews.834976294@bob.wittenberg.edu> 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.