From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 4 5:29:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au [129.78.129.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F192415830 for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 05:29:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au) Received: (from dawes@localhost) by rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id WAA26962; Tue, 4 May 1999 22:27:57 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19990504222757.G27888@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 22:27:57 +1000 From: David Dawes To: Brian Feldman , Matthew Thyer Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Silo overflows and MAME can someone else reproduce this problem ?? References: <372DB8A1.89159C49@camtech.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Brian Feldman on Mon, May 03, 1999 at 08:57:14PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 08:57:14PM -0400, Brian Feldman wrote: >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 The answers in order are: rarely (never for most modern cards), no, and no. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message