Bug 3322 - serial port use almost stops Sparcstation
Summary: serial port use almost stops Sparcstation
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
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Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 6.0
Hardware: sparc
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Cristian Gafton
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-06-07 23:12 UTC by r.cartlidge
Modified: 2008-08-01 16:22 UTC (History)
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Description r.cartlidge 1999-06-07 23:12:40 UTC 
If data is transmitted from a serial port, say by
cat /boot/vmlinuz > /dev/ttyS1
then the load goes up and almost no work can be done till
the transmission is over.
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