At what high frequency do you start to notice the problem?

- Kal.

Richard Hasty wrote:
> 
> I just started playing with RTL v2.2 and ran into a problem I don't
> understand.  I was using the parallel port IRQ and it appears that a high
> interrupt rate causes the computer to lock up, even after the interrupts
> cease.  I don't actually need high interrupt rates, they occurred
> accidentally because of the poorly designed sensor.  All I'm doing in the
> interrupt service routine is writing to the parallel port, incrementing a
> counter, printing the counter using rtl_printf, and re-enabling the IRQ. I
> solved the problem by re-enabling the IRQ in another process a short time
> later.
> 
> Should I always limit the interrupt rate artificially like this?  Why
> does this problem occur?
> 
> Thanks,
> Richard Hasty
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