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Date:      Mon, 3 May 1999 20:57:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
To:        Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Silo overflows and MAME can someone else reproduce this problem ??
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905032056210.8033-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
In-Reply-To: <372DB8A1.89159C49@camtech.com.au>

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On Tue, 4 May 1999, Matthew Thyer wrote:

> 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.

Doesn't X turn off interrupts? A lot? ESPECIALLY in things like the DGA
code (which you're probably using with xmame, aren't you?)? Hope I'm thinking
on the right track... ;)

> 
> 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
> 
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