Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 19:35:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: William Wong <wwong@wiley.csusb.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sio buffer overflows Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980113193409.24708M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199801121045.CAA17936@wiley.csusb.edu>
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On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, William Wong wrote: > Hello peoples, > > I seem to be getting some sio overflows when ftp'ing large files over ppp > to my computer. I got some of these messages: > > /kernel: sio1: 1416 more tty-level buffer overflows (total 1416) > /kernel: sio1: 3086 more tty-level buffer overflows (total 4502) > /kernel: sio1: 1834 more tty-level buffer overflows (total 6336) > > I was downloading a 6 meg gzipped file. The file was intact though as > I was able to gunzip it. Should I need to worry about this? This means that the system was receiving data faster than the program (ppp in this case) could process it, and so it dropped data. Try reducing your baudrate or updating your ppp from www.freebsd.org/~brian. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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