Subject: Re: Receiver ring buffer overrun ?
To: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@ai.mit.edu>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@teeri.jmp.fi>
List: current-users
Date: 07/03/1995 11:00:13
>    Resently, I got the following messages several times.
> 	   /netbsd: ed0: warning - receiver ring buffer overrun
>    Should I worry about it? 
> 
> No.

Uhhh..  On my A3000, this slows ftp transfers down to 100...150 K/s and
I definately _do_ worry about it.  I didn't see this with the old ed
driver, so I can't understand what's happening with the new one.

>    Can I modify the sources to increase the buffer size?
> 
> Cards based on the DP8390 series generally have a fixed amount of
> memory on board.  In other words: No, you can't.

The problem happens with 16 K buffer RAM.  The CPU has more than 10 ms
to read the buffers before an overflow occurs.  I think it _should_ be
able to do that (a 25 MHz 68030 in my case).

  -jm

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