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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!insosf1.infonet.net!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!news.alpha.net!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!pi From: pi@indiana.edu (Raymond L. Gilbert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: What is a "silo overflow"? Date: 6 Feb 1995 06:17:18 GMT Organization: A FreeBSD Enthusiast Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3h4ete$1de@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> References: <3fn18a$gej@sundog.tiac.net> <3gpec2$aik@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <3h4dgm$86u@feenix.metronet.com> Reply-To: pi@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: xyplex4-2-11.ucs.indiana.edu Thus it was recorded by the prophets, rbarton@metronet.com said: >Brian Somers (brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk) wrote: >: Rob Landry (umar@tiac.net) wrote: >: : What is a "silo overflow"? Should I be doing anything to prevent or elimi- >: : nate them? > >: Have a look at 'man sio'. It means that you've got a slow machine (due to >: load?) and a high serial rate > >I started with NetBSD, and later tried and stuck with FreeBSD. I also had the silo >errors, and during a slip session at that. It would continue ok for a while, but >later, my slip session would get hung, and there was nothing I could do to free >it up short of reboot :-( I have the exact same problem. I looked up the manpage for sio. OK, yes my machine goes really slow. OK yes, I have a decently fast serial rate. What are my options other than getting a faster machine? Artificially slow my serial rate by a factor of two or something? -- /----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Raymond L. Gilbert | "...the present rule in computing the circle's | | pi@indiana.edu | area is entirely wrong..." | | IUB Dept. of Physics | - Bill No. 246, Indiana State Legislature, 1897| \----------------------------------------------------------------------------/