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Article #10152silo overflow?
From: Jim Reid
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1989 11:47
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1989 11:47
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A few questions concerning a silo overflow:
What IS a silo overflow?
What causes one?
What fixes one?
I am running SunOS 3.5 on a Sun 3/260. Thanks in advance.
Jim Reid {ames,harvard,rutgers}!rochester!kodak!fedsys!wally!jwr
[[ Check out Sun-Spots volume 6 issues 93, 97, and 100. Basically, a silo
is like a queue of pending characters. An overflow will occur on input
(for example) when the computer hardware cannot process the characters as
fast as they are coming in. The "silo" (or queue) fills up and then
overflows. --wnl ]]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: scotty!jwr@kodak.com (Jim Reid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: silo overflow? Message-ID: <695@scotty.UUCP> Date: 11 Jan 89 11:47:29 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Advanced Data Flow Technology Office Lines: 15 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 3 Jan 89 20:12:13 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 95, message 7 of 21