From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 1 05:43:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA11555 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 05:43:37 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA11549 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 05:43:25 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA19438; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 15:43:03 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id PAA29650; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 15:43:03 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA00804; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 15:36:47 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504011336.PAA00804@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Speed while printing To: dfr@nlsys.demon.co.uk (Doug Rabson) Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 15:36:46 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Doug Rabson" at Apr 1, 95 01:50:25 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 492 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Doug Rabson wrote: > > I just attached a PostScript printer to my machine via /dev/lpt0 and > while it prints fine (after hacking /etc/printcap a bit), my machine > slows down to a crawl while it is sending stuff to the printer. Is this > normal? Printing under Win95 does not show this effect. Are you sure it's working with interrupts? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)