Subject: Re: le0: overflow
To: None <root@garbled.net>
From: Chris J. Mutter <chris@terminal.sil.at>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/17/1998 18:33:34
> 
> On 17-Dec-98 Chris J. Mutter spoke unto us all:
> # > Do you happen to have a lot of other DMA activity competing for bandwidth
?
> #  
> #  nope. I run the machine with a NFS-rootfs to a 100mbit FreeBSD box via a
> #  switched network. Xsun is almost all that runs on the machine. I get this 
> #  errors when opening _bigger_ apps like exmh/xemacs or netscape .. but then
> #  it just scrolls error messages and this is annoying. or is the machine
> #  (SS1) just too slow for that kind of network activity?? Cannot be . or?
> 
> Mine gets blown away with those errors when I remote display a netscape windo
w
> to it with lots of graphics. (ss1).  I think the machine isjust too slow.

that was my first thought also .. but why does it get an overflow?? I mean it
works slower so it receives slower .. the application is just slower..  right?
shouldnt result in an overflow.

chrisjm
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