Glenn Satchell came through with a very helpful answer, thanks again Glenn!
Steve..
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Steve Madden Phone: 61 (069) 332823
Unix Systems Programmer Email: smadden@csu.edu.au
Charles Sturt University - Australia
Riverina Campus
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 12:28:11 +1000
From: Glenn Satchell <glenn@ind.tansu.com.au>
To: smadden@csu.edu.au
Subject: Re: Whats a ring Buffer?
A ring buffer is the small buffer associated with the UART chip that
drives the serial port. On most Suns there are 4 serial ports, zs0 and
zs1 (associated with ttya and ttyb), zs2 and zs3 associated with the
keyboard and mouse).
When the system hangs if you type on the keyboard or move the mouse
this generates a series of characters on the serial port. If the system
is hung then the driver can't run to drain the data from the UART and
the UART signals an error that there were some characters lost.
In your case this is probably a message that you can ignore. Sometimes
you can also get the same effect if yo move the mouse when the system
first starts to boot.
regards,
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> Hey everyone,
>
> One of our nameservers (and bootp servers) hung for about 5 minutes and then
> came back.. Latest change to the machine was an upgrade to Netscape, and
> it also is running Spectrum.
>
> /var/adm/messages stated the following;
>
> Jul 8 11:01:49 csunw unix: NOTICE: zs3:ring buffer overflow
>
> Ok, I am not going to embarass myself by even guessing what this means.
>
> If anyone has seen this before, can you let me know if it is going to be
> a problem.
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve..
>
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> Steve Madden Phone: 61 (069) 332823
> Unix Systems Programmer Email: smadden@csu.edu.au
>
> Charles Sturt University - Australia
> Riverina Campus
>
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> "The BEST way to accelerate a Mac is at 9.8 metres/sec (/sec)"
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