From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 1 13:11:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA29931 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 13:11:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA29926 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 13:11:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA21098; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 14:13:24 -0700 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 14:13:24 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199602012113.OAA21098@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Brian Handy Cc: Nate Williams , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: silo overflow In-Reply-To: References: <199602011827.LAA20509@rocky.sri.MT.net> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > Can someone tell me what this line out of my syslog means? > > > > > > Jan 27 15:04:24 condor /kernel: sio0: 2 more silo overflows (total 2) > > > Jan 27 15:04:32 condor /kernel: sio0: 1 more silo overflow (total 3) > > > > It means the hardware couldn't keep up with the serial load. I started > > seeing that recently on my -stable box at home after I upgraded the > > kernel, and I *never* saw it before. I'm not sure why, but it might be > > related to the SPL changes Peter/Bruce made. (Just guessing). > > > > It's mostly harmless, but annoying since the only load I have is *ONE* > > SLIP connection running at 115K on a 486/66 which is mostly unloaded > > when I get these messages. > > Heh...hmmm. Allow me to take this a step further. You're saying my > serial mouse is overloading the system? :-) Uhh, yep. Why, I don't know, see above. Bruce would be the one to answer why a mouse could overload the system. Did you update the kernel recently to cause this to happen? Nate