From: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 13:33:01 -0400 (EDT) On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, David S. Miller wrote: > When packet (more specifically, software interrupt) processing > reaches a certain level, we offload the work into process context. That sounds good. Adjust the nice value of the ksoftirqd tasks, that's the only thing available. But your problem has to do with all the PIO accesses, that absolutely kills the machine. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html