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> On 22-Jul-97 Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> >Rob, what else do you have on your system? Although I haven't done the
> >test in a while, the serial driver was originally written to be able to
> >support 115kbaud on a 386/40. (Granted this was a kermit transfers, not
> >PPP; but it was a looped back 115kbaud transfer where the transmitting
> >and receiving ports were on the same CPU, doubling the work.)
> >
> >The fact that your 486/66 isn't keeping up makes me wonder what other
> >sources of interrupts you are having on your system.
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> I have a caching IDE controller (UltraStor) running 'hdparm -u 1',
> an NE2000 clone NIC, a MS busmouse, and 3 other serial ports (of
> which only one is occasionally in use at 38400bps). The buffer
> overruns occur when transfering across the net via a masqueraded
> connection or NFS, or when writing directly to the local HD.
Those com ports aren't 8250's are they?
Amy :)