On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> Is anyone testing the new com driver on  FIFO-less chips (16450s, 8250s)?
> 
> For comparison, Linux on a 40Mhz 486 can keep up with 115.2k for
> 1k-byte packet bursts, using a 16450 -- at least as long as there's no
> IDE traffic.  

Hm, I've got a 25MHz 386 with 16450s, and I still get silo overflows at
19200 baud with the new com driver (well, an older version of it...
haven't tried this latest set of patches yet). It's only got 4 megs of
RAM, so it does page fairly often (to an IDE disk). 

Anyone got a good deal on 36 1Mbitx1 DRAM chips? :)

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