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Subject: Re: silo overflows (?)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970801132008.5626E-100000@depravitas.tuu.utas.edu.au> from "andrew@ugh.net.au" at "Aug 1, 97 01:31:37 pm"
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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 03:26:01 -0400 (EDT)
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From: dkp@iname.com (Dave K-P)
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> On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Dave K-P wrote:
>
> > Jul 31 05:15:42 brandx /kernel: sio1: 1 more silo overflow (total 142)
> 
> Basically data is coming in from your modem faster than your computer can
> handle it. Check you have hardware handshaking, give greater priority to
> the PPP process, reduce the load on your machine, get a bigger buffer on
> your serail port (is it a 16550A?), slow down your modem etc...

        All these things and more have I tried, but none without a cost.  
Since it seems the problem cannot be "solved", is there a way to supress the 
warning messages, since it renders whichever terminal I run ppp in unusable as 
it fills up with silo overflow errors?