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On 15 Mar 1998 03:07:19 -0000, Nix did spake:
>The easiest way to spot serial overflows is to not use irqtune and try
>doing something that slams the disk at the same time as ftping something.
>If the ftp transfer stops off dead when the disk access starts, you've got
>overruns.[1]

A bit of a haphazard guessing way to do it, surely?  *8-(  Not to
mention the very real problem that we only get the overruns in *one*
situation -- transfers above 9000cps + related disk accesses (not
other general disc accesses).  Below that, the computer can do what
it darned well likes.

Ta-ra,
  Julie.

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