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From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
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Subject: Re: 2.9test9-mm1 and DAO ATAPI cd-burning corrupt
Date: 11 Nov 2003 15:31:26 GMT
Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.53.0311110942280.8688@montezuma.fsmlabs.com>,
Zwane Mwaikambo  <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
| On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, bill davidsen wrote:
| 
| > Looking at the system time being used I would say that this is doing
| > something odd. If that's using DMA then for some reason is it doing a
| > shitload of system calls at those times? I bet you're losing interrupts,
| > getting nasty mousing, and I would wonder about dropping incoming
| > network packets as well.

| That looks like fairly low system time and generally idle system to me, 
| and the interrupt rate isn't high at all.

Yes, I added a followup a few minutes later noting that I had a
line-wrap problem and misread the data. I haven't seen that post, but
that's what happened.
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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