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Date:      Thu, 02 Dec 1999 17:55:18 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tty level buffer overflows 
Message-ID:  <199912030155.RAA02824@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Dec 1999 19:49:52 CST." <Pine.NEB.3.96.991202192701.80075A-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> 

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> On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Dec  2 11:08:56 bifrost /kernel: sio0: 208 more tty-level buffer overflows (total 3356)
> > 
> > is appearing on our ppp machine.  What are tty-level buffer overflows?
> > How can I fix this?  What resource is running out?
> 
> If I remember properly, it is a receive buffer filling up.  There were some
> hacks in 2.x kernels to get around it, so you might want t o go look through
> the archives.  

It's documented in the sio(4) manpage, which is always worth reading.

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