From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 3 17:57:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E28B14C20 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 17:57:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA08377; Mon, 3 May 1999 20:57:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 20:57:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Matthew Thyer Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Silo overflows and MAME can someone else reproduce this problem ?? In-Reply-To: <372DB8A1.89159C49@camtech.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 May 1999, Matthew Thyer wrote: > My usermode ppp works fine normally as I can quite happily download > 4 things at once without a single silo overflow (as I did last night) > even when there is lots of disk activity or X11 activity. > > Note this problem is unrelated to newbus as it occurs both before and > after those commits. Doesn't X turn off interrupts? A lot? ESPECIALLY in things like the DGA code (which you're probably using with xmame, aren't you?)? Hope I'm thinking on the right track... ;) > > Matthew Thyer wrote: > > > > This problem is easily reproducible. > > > > However to do so, you need a ROM image for an arcade game that the > > Multi Arcade Machine Emulator emulates as it wont do it without any > > roms in the directory "/usr/local/lib/mame/roms". > > > > I am using xmame installed from the ports collection > > (/usr/ports/emulators/xmame) on a very recent -CURRENT machine. > > > > If I run xmame *before* I get online with user mode ppp (or while > > I am on the net), the serial ports get hosed and I have to reboot > > or I continually get silo overflows. > > > > This is not right as it happens AFTER I exit xmame !!! > > > > Please can someone else reproduce this problem as I'd hate to think > > its only on the systems I have owned (Pentium 166 and Celeron 300). > > > -- > /=======================================================================\ > | Work: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au | Home: thyerm@camtech.net.au | > \=======================================================================/ > "If it is true that our Universe has a zero net value for all conserved > quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum of some > larger space in which our Universe is imbedded. In answer to the > question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our > Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." > E. P. Tryon from "Nature" Vol.246 Dec.14, 1973 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \ _ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___)___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message