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Date:      Tue, 04 May 1999 11:43:47 +0930
From:      Matthew Thyer <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au>
To:        vortexia <andrew@psycho.h4x0rz.za.org>
Cc:        Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.com.au>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Silo overflows and MAME can someone else reproduce this problem??
Message-ID:  <372E57DB.D7128EA7@dsto.defence.gov.au>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905031738060.644-100000@psycho.h4x0rz.za.org>

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The sio driver seems to get into some kind of state where once it starts
overflowing there is nothing you can do other than reboot.

If you can determine exactly what triggers this on your system and give
the list something they can reproduce that would be helpfull.

vortexia wrote:
> 
> Im getting continous overflows on sio0 after I shutdown X no matter what I
> do, even when there is NOTHING else running, the moment I shutdown X and I
> move my mouse I get tons of overflows.
> 
> I have no pppd running at all and no moused, any ideas?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 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.
> >
> > 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).
> > >

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