BVPPC (1/41)

From:Johan Eriksson
Date:1 Jun 2000 at 20:17:10
Subject:Re: Wb background takes ages with ppc datatype

On 31 May 2000, Brad Rogers wrote:

> On 31-May-00 08:49:11, Rauw van Oorsprong wrote something about Re: [bvppc] Wb background takes ages with ppc datatype to Brad Rogers,
>
> >I noticed that this PCMCIA thingie slows the whole system down by 40%. And
> >there isnt really a solution (although Ihave yet to try the latest
>
> There isn't; PCMCIA is a CPU hog, I'm afraid. It's all to do with DMA
> contention. A bit like the internal serial port suffering when in a high
> resolution graphics mode.

There seems to be two levels of hogging on my setup. If the card is
inserted when I power up, I get major slowdowns. Otherwise it's not so
bad.

/Johan Eriksson, johane@lysator.liu.se

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