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Subject: PCI cyclades problems solved
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Bruce et al,

Moving the shared memory from <1M reduced silo overflows around
2-4x. Probably a good idea to put this in the handbook.

What eliminated overvlows entirely however, was replacing the
system's wd* card with an ne2000. It seems that the wd* was not
generating ints after writes, causing non-interruptable timeouts.

Cheers,
Julian.