From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 2 00:54:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA26639 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 00:54:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from suroit.rocler.qc.ca (root@suroit.rocler.qc.ca [204.101.179.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA26633 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 00:54:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vince@rocler.qc.ca) Received: from rocler.qc.ca (p153.rocler.qc.ca [204.101.179.153]) by suroit.rocler.qc.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA31559 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 03:58:37 -0500 Message-ID: <34D58A45.9BCFC8CC@rocler.qc.ca> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 03:56:37 -0500 From: Frankenvince Organization: Vinceland X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: silo overflows (was: [Fwd: Audio CD]) References: <34D5801F.D1886955@rocler.qc.ca> <34D58158.EF9B72D8@rocler.qc.ca> <19980202190055.56432@lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 02, 1998 at 03:18:32AM -0500, Frankenvince wrote: > > > > My box has a problem that started out of the blue. Often, it says: > > sio1: 234 more tty-levels buffer overflows (total 325634) > > in ttyv0, both 234 and 325634 are random numbers on my part. > > It happens when there's any kind of download from my ISP. On > > sio1 is my 33.6kbps modem. > > That is common enough. > > > I recently saw in ppp, while doing show modem: > > outq: ioctl probe failed: Interupted system call > > That's less common. > > > It's bothering me a lot since it's slowing down my internet > > connection for like half of it's speed and also ppp gives me > > segmentation faults whenever there's a lot of connections asked. > > And that's very uncommon. > > Of course, there isn't much I can do about it, since you didn't tell > me what you're running. I'd suggest you take a look at > http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. But I'd guess it's a relatively > slow machine (386?) with a 16450 UART. Look for a board with 16550 > UARTS; they're not expensive, and they should solve the problem. I've > been monitoring a 368DX/33 which functions as an Internet gateway, and > it had a lot of these overruns until it changed to 16550s. Since then > there have been none. > > Greg I'm running a Cyrix 486DX4-100Mhz with 24Mb RAM. My motherboard is PCI/ISA with serial (16550) on board with Award BIOS. My modem is a USR 33.6Kbps sportster. I'm running FreeBSD-2.2.5-stable with XFree86 3.3.1 with ijppp. I use tkirc/ircII-2.9-roof and netscape-communicator 4.04 mainly when I'm online. Vince