From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 24 15:16:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA12961 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 15:16:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from synwork.com (flaq@synwork.com [199.3.234.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA12947 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 15:16:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (flaq@localhost) by synwork.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA13448 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 17:15:54 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 17:15:53 -0500 (CDT) From: "Mike K." To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I want PPP to stay up all the time (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Below is a little problem we are trying to figure out. I am assuming User PPP is where a user actually types ppp at a prompt and kernel ppp is started by other than a user. The problem I have is that with "kernel" ppp, it uses almost 50% of the CPU. Is this normal and is there a solution? Mike ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ Syn-Work Media, Inc. | WWW Development & Hosting | Life Safety http://www.synwork.com | Systems Integration | CCTV mike@synwork.com | Voice/Data/Fiber | Access Control Flaq on IRC | Dukane Distributor | BICSI/RCDD ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 14:35:41 -0400 From: Mark Plummer To: "Mike K." Cc: Mark Plummer Subject: Re: I want PPP to stay up all the time > > The script works great! The only question I have now is below is a > capture of top. ppp is running at the top using a lot of CPU (or so it > seems). Is this anything to be concerned about? > > ... > > Mike > i'm getting that too. it's not really an issue here since we use our machine running ppp just as a firewall, but it's something i've always wondered about. let me know if you find anything. enjoy... markus -- Mark Plummer, markus@clark.net, +1 410 796 1272