Richard Rauch wrote:

> Anyway, the system crawls while I'm dumping data to the new Laser printer.
> Is therr ea way that I can fix this?  (Would switching to the polling lpa*
> device nodes help?  Or could I adjust some priority somewhere?)

It seems that the printer driver causes an incredible number of interrupts
per seconds, thousands of them.  Probably as many as your machine can
handle.  You should try the interruptless driver, but what is really needed
is for someone to fix the ltp driver, perhaps to use DMA.


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        -- Lennart