> > Well, I didn't think it would be this bad, but it is.  My 133 MHz pentium
> > which is almost idle, can't keep up with my 28800 bps modem.  I get lots
> > of silo overflows while there's no IDE disk or network activity.  I moved
> 
> Hm, are you running the pcvt console (and actually using it)? I run my 
> PPP connection at 115200 baud, and noticed that something in pcvt 
> (probably scrolling the screen, but I'm not sure) gives me a lot of silo 
> overflows. Everything works great if I'm in X though.

Yeah, pcvt, but I'm running X as well.  The silo overflows make WWW browsing
almost impossible sometimes.. TCP/IP dies for a long time when several
packets are broken by the overflows. :-(  Well, at least the Cyclades card
works a zillion times better on my other machine.. doesn't help here, though.

  -jm

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