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Date:      Thu, 10 Sep 1998 01:21:48 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Yoav Cohen-Sivan <ycs@netvision.net.il>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sio FIFO overflow? 
Message-ID:  <199809100021.BAA04842@woof.lan.awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Sep 1998 14:56:17 %2B0300." <35F66CE1.347AAE45@netvision.net.il> 

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Does this mean that PR 7755 is closable in its current incarnation ?

> I think I am seeig FIFO overflows during 115200 bps transfers on a
> serial port. Especially with heavy disk activity. Is there a way to flag
> FIFO overflows, and is there a way to check interrupt latency?
> 
> I've been seeing randomly-timed link lockups during almost every PPP
> session I
> initiate (both kernel and user). The lockups clear after hanging up and
> redialling.
> 
> I finally lowered my bps from 115200 to 57600, and voila! lockups have
> disappeared. I've spent the better part of the past 3 days banging on
> the link (and my phone bill) like there's no tomorrow. 
> 
> The lockups were usually during heavy link and system use, and I'm
> thinking
> the serial FIFO was overflowing, but the sio driver latency was too
> great to respond in time.
> 
> Could this have caused some corrupted packets to be sent to my ISP
> (using Cisco 5200 equipment), causing it to ignore me for the duration
> of the session?
> 
>         Yoav

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