From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 23:35:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA03289 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:35:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA03281 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:35:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA05137; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:35:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:35:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Oliver Wilson cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Silo overflow when running X...what's it mean?? In-Reply-To: <199610200514.BAA15974@Nimbus.CAM.ORG> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Oliver Wilson wrote: > While running X (Xfree86 3.1.2G) on FreeBsd 2.1.5 the following message was > output to the console : > 'Oct 19 22:27:29 Siren /kernel: Sio0: 1 more silo overflow (total 3)' > > Has anyone ever seen this? What does it mean ? It means that more data came in the serial port than could be processed, so data was lost. Under X this is probably your mouse, which is *really* odd since the mouse runs at 1200bps, slow enough for even a 386/16sx with a 16450 to read it w/o dropping characters. (?) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major