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Date:      Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:14:30 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        geoffb@demon.net
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), ortmann@sparc.isl.net, andyf@speednet.com.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, johan@granlund.nu
Subject:   Re: sio breakage 
Message-ID:  <199811302314.PAA06193@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:27:33 GMT." <199811301627.QAA00766@gti.noc.demon.net> 

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> > >> > I see these types of messages (when running XF86 3.3.2):
> > >> > 
> > >> > Nov 25 23:10:11 zippy /kernel: sio0: 9 more tty-level buffer overflows (total 1260)
> > >> > Nov 25 23:10:12 zippy /kernel: sio0: 4 more tty-level buffer overflows (total 1264)
> > >> > Nov 25 23:10:15 zippy /kernel: sio0: 20 more tty-level buffer overflows (total 1284)
> > >> > Nov 26 13:36:55 zippy /kernel: sio0: 1 more silo overflow (total 4)
> > 
> > This seems to be caused by some video cards and/or X drivers.
> > 
> > >I am curious to know whats going on here, I have been seeing numerous 
> > >silo overflows while using my laptop (2.2.6+PAO) as a console for a
> > >DEC multia/UDB, I had dismissed them as an annoyance probably caused
> > >by a slight misconfiguration in /etc/remote.
> > 
> I was assuming the serial interface which is a fixed one breaking out of
> the back of the Laptop had nothing to do with the PCMCIA, 

You're quite correct; it doesn't.  There's *something* holding up both 
your interrupt handlers and the tty soft interrupt; maybe even possibly the 
same thing that causes the "calcru: negative time for ..." messages.
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