From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 2 17:50:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02C8C14F8B for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 17:50:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.42]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA41173; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 19:49:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 19:49:52 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt To: Warner Losh Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tty level buffer overflows In-Reply-To: <199912022355.QAA06352@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > > Dec 2 11:08:56 bifrost /kernel: sio0: 208 more tty-level buffer overflows (total 3356) > > is appearing on our ppp machine. What are tty-level buffer overflows? > How can I fix this? What resource is running out? If I remember properly, it is a receive buffer filling up. There were some hacks in 2.x kernels to get around it, so you might want t o go look through the archives. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message