Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:35:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Oliver Wilson <owilson@CAM.ORG> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Silo overflow when running X...what's it mean?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961021233423.4986U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199610200514.BAA15974@Nimbus.CAM.ORG>
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On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Oliver Wilson wrote: > While running X (Xfree86 3.1.2G) on FreeBsd 2.1.5 the following message was > output to the console : > 'Oct 19 22:27:29 Siren /kernel: Sio0: 1 more silo overflow (total 3)' > > Has anyone ever seen this? What does it mean ? It means that more data came in the serial port than could be processed, so data was lost. Under X this is probably your mouse, which is *really* odd since the mouse runs at 1200bps, slow enough for even a 386/16sx with a 16450 to read it w/o dropping characters. (?) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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