Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 08:06:56 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: "William Woods" <wwoods@cybcon.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, "Doug Rabson" <dfr@nlsystems.com>, "Alain G. Fabry" <fabry@coserve.org>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: External modems on Alpha..... Message-ID: <199904211506.IAA26011@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 00:02:01 -0700
"William Woods" <wwoods@cybcon.com> wrote:
> OK.....I am getting a crap load oF "silo overflows" when connected to the
> net. I am useing a external Hayes Acura 33/56k fax-modem. I am guessing this
> is a serial port problem, but am not sure. I have this modem attached to
> /dev/cuaa0 (com1).
I doubt it's a serial port problem. It's more likely a problem of the FreeBSD
kernel not reasonably coping witht he fact that all device interrupts come
in at the same interrupt level on the Alpha (so network and disk controller
interrupts block serial port reception).
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
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