PPP takes the system over :(

[-=Nihr0M=-]

Hello Lowell Gilbert! 

Yes, I have a vterminal open (konsole), but it does change nothing...
I can open another virtual term, but only when my network activity is 
close to zero.

#top
last pid:   660;  load averages:  0.07,  0.11,  0.08              up 
0+00:13:55  09:33:10
47 processes:  3 running, 44 sleeping
CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt, 
 100% idle
Mem: 60M Active, 45M Inact, 38M Wired, 160K Cache, 34M Buf, 99M Free
Swap: 99M Total, 99M Free

   PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU 
COMMAND
   626 root      96    0 22580K 19008K select   0:07  1.03%  1.03% 
ksysguard
   590 root      96    0 24028K 19500K RUN      0:02  0.29%  0.29% 
kdeinit
   518 root      96    0 80652K 79280K RUN      0:11  0.00%  0.00% 
XFree86
   612 root      96    0 33632K 29960K select   0:10  0.00%  0.00% 
kdeinit
   546 root      96    0 23432K 19344K select   0:06  0.00%  0.00% 
kdeinit
   577 root      96    0 24844K 20912K select   0:03  0.00%  0.00% 
kdeinit
   575 root      96    0 23536K 19744K select   0:02  0.00%  0.00% 
kdeinit
   573 root      96    0 22500K 18068K select   0:02  0.00%  0.00% 
kdeinit
   628 root      96    0  1772K  1372K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% 
ksysguardd
   462 root      96    0  1228K   708K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% 
moused
   641 root      96    0 23220K 20076K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% 
kget
   581 root      96    0 22184K 17808K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% 
kdeinit
   624 root     116   20  3300K  2064K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% ppp
   584 root      96    0 21796K 16984K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% 
kdeinit
   569 root      96    0 25556K 20296K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% 
kdeinit
   552 root      96    0 22384K 18044K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% 
kdeinit

that nice of ppp is my doing - I thought it would take less resources 
- no result.
And at that moment I downloaded a file...


>"-=Nihr0M=-" <nihrom at rambler.ru> writes:
>
>> Hello, I have a 5.2.1-Release.
>> 
>> The problem is, when I start PPP -auto <my_script> and my modem
>> connects, when tcp transaction is going (e.g I download a file or 
>>open
>> a web page...) I'm not able to run any other
>> program (it seems like comp 'freezes'). That just sux... but when 
>>the
>> action completes, all htese progs start ...
>> duh...
>> 
>> BTW, my system is Athlon 1200Mhz, 256Megs of RAM, 200 of 2500 mb 
>>free
>> on HDD, external USR modem
>
>Do you have a terminal open at the time?
>Can you log in to a different virtual terminal?
>Can you try running top(1) when you do the ppp(8) connect and see 
>what
>your system thinks it is doing?