From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Leif Neland" Subject: Re: Framebuffer overflow halts network (fwd) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 02:12:09 +0100 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <007e01c2d3c6$193feb80$6705a8c0@gina> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from 0x50c48aec.adsl-fixed.tele.dk ([80.196.138.236] helo=arnold.neland.dk) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Cipher TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18jUPW-0003a7-00 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:13:02 -0800 Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: James Simmons , Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Linux Frame Buffer Device Development ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Simmons" To: "Geert Uytterhoeven" Cc: "Linux Frame Buffer Device Development" ; "Leif Neland" Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Framebuffer overflow halts network (fwd) > > I have set up my primary work machine (i.e. it is mostly used as a terminal > > to connect to other servers) with framebuffer and have 64 lines*160 chars in > > a pretty font. > > > > I ssh to other servers from this machine. > > > > If I do something which create a lot of output, eg. ls -lR /, the remote > > machine sends more data than the framebuffer-terminal can handle. This > > blocks the network on the terminal machine, which also is nameserver, > > internal webserver and upsd server. > > > Which kernel are you using and whcih video card? Debian-version: 3.0 Linux 2.2.19 >From dmesg: Detected 350798 kHz processor. vesafb: framebuffer at 0xdc000000, mapped to 0xd0000000, size 4096k vesafb: mode is 1280x1024x8, linelength=1280, pages=2 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:5b6a vesafb: scrolling: redraw Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device from /proc/pci Bus 0, device 12, function 0: VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE/DX or /GX (rev 1). Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=255. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdc000000 [0xdc000000]. > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0026en