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Date:      Wed, 04 Mar 1998 19:32:25 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        dmaddox@scsn.net
Cc:        Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net>, Matthew Thyer <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, shimon@simon-shapiro.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: silo overflows (Was Re: 3.0-RELEASE?) 
Message-ID:  <199803050332.TAA23822@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Mar 1998 22:10:12 EST." <19980304221012.62373@scsn.net> 

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> 
> Try the modifications noted in the included info.  I
> no longer get any kind of sio messages.
> 
> 
> -- 
> John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
> dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid,
> jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.
> 
> 
> 
> Index: sio.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /local/home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/isa/sio.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.194
> diff -r1.194 sio.c
> 117a118
> > /*
> 119a121,123
> > */
> > #define RB_I_HIGH_WATER (TTYHOG / 2)
> > #define RS_IBUFSIZE (TTYHOG / 4)
> 
> 
> Add this to your system conf:
> 
> options		"MSIZE=256"

Interesting; why change the mbuf size?  Is this a recommended change 
for general operation, or is 128 bytes still preferred?

> options		"TTYHOG=4096"

This increases tty-internal buffers, but wouldn't be expected to affect 
interrupt latency.  (There may be some carryover though.)

 - Were you seeing "silo overflow" messages?
 - Have the above changes affected your actual throughput?

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