From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 29 19:17:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA08562 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 19:17:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA08551 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 19:16:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA16955; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 19:16:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 19:16:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: rknebel@csrlink.net cc: Freebsd Subject: Re: sio 1 In-Reply-To: <19971029193556.50249@my.domain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 Oct 1997 rknebel@csrlink.net wrote: > I have started seeing these messages on the screen when I shut down my x > windows: > > sio 1 : 1 more silo overflow(total) 19 > > Anyone know what this means or how to fix it. This comes from the serial port, specifically COM2. Your system probably gets too busy as its shutting down X to mind the serial port, so it starves and drops packets. If your mouse is connected to COM2 then you can safely ignore it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major