From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 3 7:53:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from goliath.camtech.net.au (goliath.camtech.net.au [203.5.73.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 473A014E0F for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 07:53:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thyerm@camtech.com.au) Received: from camtech.com.au (dialup-ad-12-99.camtech.net.au [203.55.242.99]) by goliath.camtech.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.2) with ESMTP id AAA09013 for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 00:28:44 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <372DB8A1.89159C49@camtech.com.au> Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 00:24:25 +0930 From: Matthew Thyer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Silo overflows and MAME can someone else reproduce this problem ?? References: <372DB7E6.8D66DCDF@camtech.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My usermode ppp works fine normally as I can quite happily download 4 things at once without a single silo overflow (as I did last night) even when there is lots of disk activity or X11 activity. Note this problem is unrelated to newbus as it occurs both before and after those commits. Matthew Thyer wrote: > > This problem is easily reproducible. > > However to do so, you need a ROM image for an arcade game that the > Multi Arcade Machine Emulator emulates as it wont do it without any > roms in the directory "/usr/local/lib/mame/roms". > > I am using xmame installed from the ports collection > (/usr/ports/emulators/xmame) on a very recent -CURRENT machine. > > If I run xmame *before* I get online with user mode ppp (or while > I am on the net), the serial ports get hosed and I have to reboot > or I continually get silo overflows. > > This is not right as it happens AFTER I exit xmame !!! > > Please can someone else reproduce this problem as I'd hate to think > its only on the systems I have owned (Pentium 166 and Celeron 300). > -- /=======================================================================\ | Work: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au | Home: thyerm@camtech.net.au | \=======================================================================/ "If it is true that our Universe has a zero net value for all conserved quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum of some larger space in which our Universe is imbedded. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." E. P. Tryon from "Nature" Vol.246 Dec.14, 1973 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message