From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:45:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:45:11 -0400 Received: from inetc.connecttech.com ([64.7.140.42]:7184 "EHLO inetc.connecttech.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:44:44 -0400 Message-ID: <004d01c13ad0$86cbdb40$294b82ce@connecttech.com> From: "Stuart MacDonald" To: "John Levon" , In-Reply-To: <20010911020808.B88440@compsoc.man.ac.uk> Subject: Re: serial overruns Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:46:23 -0400 Organization: Connect Tech Inc. X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "John Levon" > I'm getting input overruns on a serial console with rates from 9600-38400 > > The serial HOWTO suggests irqtune might be able to help with this problem (which > I really need to solve). Is there a 2.4 version available ? If not, would updating > irqtune and using it be likely to help ? If you have an ide hard drive you may want to use hdparm to make sure that it doesn't interfere too much. Please check the archive for previous discussions on this. ..Stu