From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 6 13:55:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA29569 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:55:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA29418 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:54:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA00653; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:54:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:54:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Arnout Boer cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel --> Silo overflows In-Reply-To: <199808051342.PAA02360@tomcat.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Arnout Boer wrote: > Hi there, > > My 486 router gives kernel silo overflows when > my modem gets satured. > Any suggestions how to overcome that problem. > Standard 450 and 550 UART support is compiled in the kernel. Do you have such a chip? > Those silo overflows are probably a buffer getting sattured!? > But which and how to prevent it are a myserty to me! Get a faster serial chip or a faster computer. FreeBSD is also hypersensitive to serial port overflows; on other OSs it just happens silently. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message