From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 21 05:34:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA29346 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 05:34:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pudv01.ric.pmu.com (207-172-63-134.s134.tnt3.rcm.erols.com [207.172.63.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA29338 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 12:34:20 GMT (envelope-from SimsS@IBM.Net) Received: from Elvis.RatsNest.VaBeach.Va.Us ([148.128.70.100]) by pudv01.ric.pmu.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA09205 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 08:34:16 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: From: "Steve Sims" To: Subject: SILO Overflows Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 08:34:16 -0400 Message-ID: <000301bd6d21$cd6c0a00$64468094@Elvis.RatsNest.VaBeach.Va.Us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm scratching my head over this one.... Last week I installed a 56K/x2 USR Courier V.Everything internal modem in my puny 486/66 and have been seeing repeated "x more silo overflow (n total)" messages whenever the CPU gets even *slightly* loaded up. I've played & tweaked & searched the "questions" archive, but I can't find the cure. I've ensured that the modem is using hardware flow control (which, interestingly enough, was not the factory default) and that the appropriate tty settings are, in fact, correct. I'm trying to run the port @ 115.2 - when I've (briefly) tested it @ 57.6 it seemed to help some, but there were still silo errors when, for example, making a new kernel and beating the com port simultaneously. I'd previously had a no-name 56K modem that had a nearly-impossible record for establishing a connection (often taking up to 4-5 tries to negotiate a connection). When that blade was installed, I never got a silo overflow, so I'm assuming that the V.Everything is *much* faster ;-) ;-) True Confession: I took a couple of stabs at tweaking sio.c to set the fifo threshold lower, but after a while it dawned on me that tweaking the tx_fifo_size setting was NEVER going to help receive errors, so I gave up. D'oh! So, now that I've professed my idiocy, can someone show me the magic bullet for killing these accursed silo overflow errors? Thanks! ...sjs... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message