On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:08:33AM -0500, Geoff Adams wrote:
> Aside from the inherent differences in the machines, the only other 
> difference I can think of is that I run a serial console on the Ultra 
> 30, while the E250 is using the openprom-based text on its framebuffer.

Certainly interrupt load / cpu speed is involved in this problem.
Looks like a race condition somewhere.

Martin