On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 09:48:12AM +0200, Lennart Augustsson wrote:

> 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.

that's funny, linux doesn't have this problem when using interrupt-
driven printing, and it doesn't use DMA.

<ducks>

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