[Gllug] Too much work, lazy computer!

[Vincent AE Scott]

Jonathan Dye(jonathan.dye at automationpartnership.com)@Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 01:45:22PM +0100:
> Hi,
> 
> My newly installed debian 3.0 box has started complaining there is too much
> work to do with messages soemthing like:
> 
> eth0: Too much work to do
> 
> but it isn't doing much more than PPP over serial, ethernet (1 card) and
> iptables.
> I seem to remember someone saying something about serial and other stuff
> being a problem but I can't remember where (and even if it was on this
> list).
> I was going to compile my own kernel and patch it with the preemtible
> patches to see if that was an improvement, but I have to free some space
> first (or add another drive).
> 
> I probably should mention that this is a 486DX4-100MHz and that the network
> card is PCI.

hmm, that might have been a response to a question that i asked about
cdrom's and serial ports.  for me it was playing a CD caused the serial
port to drop packets.  someone mentioned looking at a program called
'irqtune' IIRC.  but i never got arround to it, having just finished
ogg'ing my cd's.


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