From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 1 13:14:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA00213 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 13:14:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA00208 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 13:14:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from condor.physics.montana.edu (condor.physics.montana.edu [153.90.240.211]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id NAA24937 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 13:14:11 -0800 Received: (from handy@localhost) by condor.physics.montana.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA01435; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 14:07:47 -0700 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 14:07:47 -0700 (MST) From: Brian Handy To: Nate Williams cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: silo overflow In-Reply-To: <199602011827.LAA20509@rocky.sri.MT.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 1 Feb 1996, Nate Williams wrote: > > 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? :-) Curiouser and curiouser, Brian