Patrick Ford said,
> On 31-Mar-00, Jules wrote:
>> I get something someone once called 'modem over-run', where the data
>> arrives faster than my computer can write to disk and flush the buffers,
> That's not possible. For a HD to be slower than your serial port you
> would have to have one of those old chisel-on-stone HDs. The slowest
> HD you get would be around 1 Mbyte/sec. Yours is probably between
> 2-3MB/s, about 20 times the speed of your serial port, around 20 times
> the speed of your serial port.
It's nothing to do with hard drive sped. If you have too much other data
running over the DMA bus, the serial port is unable to transfer the data
from the serial port to disk (or RAM) fast enough. Running a 256 colour
AGA screen is a good way of doing this.
It's easy to check for by looking at the output from netstat. If
duplicate packets exceed 10% of the total you have a serious problem,
slow down your serial port.
Neil
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