Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 22:33:20 -0500 From: dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox) To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, 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: <19980304223320.22976@scsn.net> In-Reply-To: <19980304192622.24302@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>; from John-Mark Gurney on Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 07:26:22PM -0800 References: <053601bd47dd$6cedf300$c9252fce@cello.synapse.net> <19980304221012.62373@scsn.net> <19980304192622.24302@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
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On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 07:26:22PM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Donald J. Maddox scribbled this message on Mar 4: > > On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 09:21:37PM -0500, Evan Champion wrote: > > > >This happens a lot as after several hours (2 or 3) of using > > > >ijppp and XFree86 the count of FIFO overflows can be around 100. > > > > > > > > > I have a Pentium Pro 200 with 16650's (and the 16650's are detected) and > > > during a full install of FreeBSD over 128kbps ISDN (230.4kbps port speed) I > > > would get around 700 FIFO overflows. Someone would have to do a lot of > > > convincing to get me to believe the driver is working properly when a > > > machine like that can't handle a 128kbps datastream in single user mode... > > > > > > > I had this same problem, and the following fix from John Dyson works > > for me: > > [patch deleted] > > are you sure that it wasn't to remeove: > sio%d: interrupt-level buffer overflow. > messages? Sorry, you are correct... I was getting interrupt-level buffer overflows, not silo overflows. Mea culpa :-/ > > if this did remove the: > sio%d: silo overflow. > messages, then there is something wierd up with sio... I'll take a look > at the code, but none of my machines have reliably produced this message > that wasn't traced to another problem (my bt946 scsi controler would keep > interrupts disabled longer than two chars to be recieved at 115200, > forcing the trigger level down to 8chars instead of 14chars fixed it for > me)... > > -- > John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 > Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 > > Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD > Don't trust anyone you don't have the source for > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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