Re: why do PPP connections die with heavy disk usage?

2006-02-08 Thread Daniel B.
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 14:04 -0400, Daniel B. wrote: ... ... the reason I'm using PIO mode in the first place is because I get massive file system corruption when I use DMA mode with IDE controllers on my motherboard (Asus A7M266-D; AMD 762(?) chipset). ... I

Re: why do PPP connections die with heavy disk usage?

2005-07-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 14:04 -0400, Daniel B. wrote: Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know why Linux can't seem to maintain a diald-dialed serial PPP connection while performing lots of disk I/O, especially on a

Re: why do PPP connections die with heavy disk usage?

2005-07-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 14:04 -0400, Daniel B. wrote: Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know why Linux can't seem to maintain a diald-dialed

Re: why do PPP connections die with heavy disk usage?

2005-07-21 Thread Daniel B.
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know why Linux can't seem to maintain a diald-dialed serial PPP connection while performing lots of disk I/O, especially on a PIO-mode IDE disk? Because the IDE driver turns off

Re: why do PPP connections die with heavy disk usage?

2005-07-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know why Linux can't seem to maintain a diald-dialed serial PPP connection while performing lots of disk I/O, especially on a PIO-mode IDE disk? Because the IDE driver turns off interrupt processing completely when

why do PPP connections die with heavy disk usage?

2005-07-19 Thread Daniel B.
Does anyone know why Linux can't seem to maintain a diald-dialed serial PPP connection while performing lots of disk I/O, especially on a PIO-mode IDE disk? When I ssh in to my machine and do a big diff -r ... command, the ssh connection usually dies and I can't reconnect until the diff is done.

Re: why do PPP connections die with heavy disk usage?

2005-07-19 Thread John Hasler
Daniel writes: Does anyone know why Linux can't seem to maintain a diald-dialed serial PPP connection while performing lots of disk I/O, especially on a PIO-mode IDE disk? I used dialup for years (on a K6-233 with 48M of RAM) and never had any such problems. Of course, I used PPP's built in

Re: why do PPP connections die with heavy disk usage?

2005-07-19 Thread Daniel B.
John Hasler wrote: Daniel writes: Does anyone know why Linux can't seem to maintain a diald-dialed serial PPP connection while performing lots of disk I/O, especially on a PIO-mode IDE disk? I used dialup for years (on a K6-233 with 48M of RAM) and never had any such problems. Of course,

Re: why do PPP connections die with heavy disk usage?

2005-07-19 Thread John Hasler
Daniel writes: Is PPP's auto-dialing the currently recommended way to do basic auto-dailing? Yes. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]