From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Apr 21 8:11:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DA8C14EA6 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 08:11:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from lestat (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA26011; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 08:06:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199904211506.IAA26011@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> To: "William Woods" Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , "Doug Rabson" , "Alain G. Fabry" , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: External modems on Alpha..... Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 08:06:56 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 00:02:01 -0700 "William Woods" 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message