hi,
i'm using an smp 2.2.10 kernel (suse 6.2) on an intel box (2x PII 266mhz, tyan
tiger s1832dl, 512mb) with a ps printer (kyocera fs-1750) attached to the
parport (5m cable, otherwise it is ieee-1284 compatible). to communicate with
the parport i use the parport, parport_pc, and the lp modules. in the bios i
selected the ecp protocol for the parport and the printer uses autodetection.
no irq and no dma selected in /etc/conf.modules. no pnp selected, neither in
the bios ("pnp aware os") nor in the kernel.
everything works well for small ps files, however, when i send an 8mb ps file
to the printer via "cat poster.ps > /dev/lp0" it takes about 90s elapsed time
(80s cpu time) to transfer the data to the printer. thus the transfer rate is
about 100kb/s, which is far less than expected for a "high speed" parport.
the resulting printout is perfect, nothing is missing.
monitoring the system during the transfer with "top" and "xosview" shows that
after a short initial phase the "cat" needs a complete cpu. even more strange:
other running processes start to consume an abnormal amount of cpu time as
well (i observed a maximum of 75% for the monitoring xosview). same for the X
server so that the mouse pointer does not readily follow movements of the
mouse.
i experimented a lot, but nothing changed the situation:
- using irq=7 and/or dma=3 (in accordance with the bios). as revealed by
/proc/parport/0/hardware and xosview, the irq is actually used during the
transfer.
- any reasonable combination of the possible bios parport protocol types
(ecp, epp1.7, epp1.9, bidirectional, normal) and the printer's parport
protocol types (auto, high speed, nibble (high), normal). for the normal
protocol the transfer time is about 150s.
- pnp activated in the bios and in the kernel (-> parport_probe module). no
diagnostics in /var/log/{boot.msg,messages,warn} with "klogd -c 8".
- using the standard suse kernel with only one cpu activated.
i observed the same phenomenon with kernel 2.0.36 on the same box and a
lexmark k1220 attached to it.
any idea what's happening, what to do? is this a "normal" behavior?
THANKS!
stephan
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