Re: ISDN massive packet drops while DVD burn/verify

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
20 Apr 2003 19:53:25 +0100


On Sul, 2003-04-20 at 17:18, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> Sorry Alan, "been there, done that"

Me too, ex 3Com engineer. He's still right.

> the combined (though sometimes confusing) efforts of you, Andre, Pavel, name-one
> on IDE made a dual 1.4 GHz PIII slower (responding) than a M68k 7,14 MHz with a
> polling IDE interface - which happens to be the slowest thing I ever did ISDN
> programming on _flawlessly_.

Look up the word "latency" in a dictionary. Look up the word "throughput" in a
dictionary. Note the difference.

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