> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Smith writes:
> : It's documented in the sio(4) manpage, which is always worth reading.
>
> Even reading the sio manpage is unclear. All it says is that things
> are too slow. Steady state I don't get these, just every now and
> again it happens. No apparent correlation to the time of day, cron
> jobs running, etc.
>
> What I was wondering is if there is a way to, say, double the buffer
> size. Also, what is the number of overflows mean? Is that bytes?
> clists? 16byte chunks? The overflow seems to happen just once and it
> is always a number less than 1000. I'd gladly spend an extra 1-2k of
> memory to help my poor ppp machine over the humps.
Growing the buffer isn't the solution; it should be big enough already.
We need to work out why a system that should have no trouble with the
data rate in question is croaking so trivially.
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