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To: Murray Stokely <murray@cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: silo overflows? 
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I think I first started seeing these with 2.2.2RELEASE.  I think it means that 
the 16-byte FIFO in the 16550A UART fills up before the interrupt service 
routine can get around to unloading it.  The question is, can anything be done 
to help?

>   What do these error messages mean?  sio1 is my modem to the outside
> world.  I never used to get these with 2.2-stable.
> 
>  sio1: 1 more silo overflow (total 70)
>  sio1: 1 more silo overflow (total 71)       
> 
> Murray Stokely
>