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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!malgudi.oar.net!hyperion.wright.edu!echoes.wittenberg.edu!bob.wittenberg.edu!mandrews From: mandrews@bob.Wittenberg.EDU (Mike Andrews) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: iijppp using 100% CPU even when modem idle? Date: 25 Jun 96 17:25:12 GMT Organization: Wittenberg University, Springfield OH Lines: 41 Message-ID: <mandrews.835723512@bob.wittenberg.edu> References: <mandrews.834976294@bob.wittenberg.edu> <Pine.SOL.3.91.960617212617.17095B-100000-100000-100000-100000@nujnuj.interaccess.com> <4q5mqr$a2p@spirit.dynas.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: bob.wittenberg.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #8 (NOV) OK, I gave the FreeBSD-stable version of iijppp a whirl, and it doesn't help the 100% CPU problem. Any more ideas? The only other thing in common between the two machines I tried it on is the same off-brand NE2000 card. This wouldn't have anything to do with it, would it? I didn't used to have this problem, but I forget what it was that triggered it -- I think it was upgrading from 2.0.5 to 2.1.0. (Rory, pppd does the same thing to me, btw -- that's why I tried iijppp in the first place.) mikko@dynas.se (Mikko Tyolajarvi) writes: >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... >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. -- -- Mike Andrews - mandrews@wittenberg.edu - mandrews@termfrost.org (NeXT) -- Programmer/Analyst, webmaster/netnews guy, Wittenberg Univ, Springfield OH -- http://www.termfrost.org/~mandrews/ "Don't get even, get odd..."