Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 19:26:22 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: dmaddox@scsn.net Cc: Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net>, Matthew Thyer <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, shimon@simon-shapiro.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: silo overflows (Was Re: 3.0-RELEASE?) Message-ID: <19980304192622.24302@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <19980304221012.62373@scsn.net>; from Donald J. Maddox on Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 10:10:12PM -0500 References: <053601bd47dd$6cedf300$c9252fce@cello.synapse.net> <19980304221012.62373@scsn.net>
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Donald J. Maddox scribbled this message on Mar 4: > On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 09:21:37PM -0500, Evan Champion wrote: > > >This happens a lot as after several hours (2 or 3) of using > > >ijppp and XFree86 the count of FIFO overflows can be around 100. > > > > > > I have a Pentium Pro 200 with 16650's (and the 16650's are detected) and > > during a full install of FreeBSD over 128kbps ISDN (230.4kbps port speed) I > > would get around 700 FIFO overflows. Someone would have to do a lot of > > convincing to get me to believe the driver is working properly when a > > machine like that can't handle a 128kbps datastream in single user mode... > > > > I had this same problem, and the following fix from John Dyson works > for me: [patch deleted] are you sure that it wasn't to remeove: sio%d: interrupt-level buffer overflow. messages? if this did remove the: sio%d: silo overflow. messages, then there is something wierd up with sio... I'll take a look at the code, but none of my machines have reliably produced this message that wasn't traced to another problem (my bt946 scsi controler would keep interrupts disabled longer than two chars to be recieved at 115200, forcing the trigger level down to 8chars instead of 14chars fixed it for me)... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD Don't trust anyone you don't have the source for To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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