From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 30 14:40:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA01004 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:40:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from blackie.cruzers.com (cruzers.com [205.215.232.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA00940 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:40:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkulp@board66.cruzers.com) Received: from board66.cruzers.com (board66.cruzers.com [205.215.233.66]) by blackie.cruzers.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA08844 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:50:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dkulp@localhost) by board66.cruzers.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id OAA19010; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:39:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:39:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807302139.OAA19010@board66.cruzers.com> From: David Kulp MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: lpt slows down other apps? X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For a little over a year now I've noticed a strange anomaly when running laplink or printing: other programs become less responsive when using the lpt device. A friend running FreeBSD has noticed the same problem. When transferring a large amount of data we've both noticed that X becomes jittery and sluggish and other applications are similarly less responsive. Similarly, I recently bought a laserjet and found that when spooling to the printer, other apps slow down. My question: what causes this to happen and how could it be fixed? Thanks! David Kulp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message