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Date:      Thu, 4 Apr 1996 12:45:17 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        root@deadline.snafu.de (Andreas S. Wetzel)
Cc:        jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, nate@sri.MT.net, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: tty-level buffer overflows - what to do?
Message-ID:  <199604042045.MAA07198@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <m0u4ujl-000A0mC@deadline.snafu.de> from "Andreas S. Wetzel" at "Apr 4, 96 09:30:29 pm"

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> Hi!
> ---
> 
> Joe Greco writes:
> 
> ] > With 2 lines going full blast (sup updates!) I see *NO* overflows on my
> ] > box.  Again, my box is running with about 6MB of free memory all the
> ] > time, so I rarely hit the disk, but I've done compiles on the machine to
> ] > upgrade software with no noticeable degradation of serial speed.
> ] > However, I do no paging at all, so my disk is mostly idle even during
> ] > compiles.
> ] 
> ] Run "du /" and watch your serial comms get choppy :-/
> 
> I coupled the two modems and did a "ls -Rl /" several times. Seemed ok.

ls -Rl / spent most of it's time doing console output, try something more
aggresive:

find / >/dev/null
du -s /
tar cf /dev/null /


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Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                 Reliable computers for FreeBSD



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