jc@heart-of-goldmitre.org (John M Chambers) (02/10/89)
Well, my last question here got a pretty good response, so I'll ask another. Thanks to the flock of folks who responded to my last one; I generally failed to get mail back to them (due to the usual fun & games with intelligent mail routers - I can feel the flames already ;-), so I have to thank y'all here. Anyhow, on to the next question. This is a Sun 3/260, with SunOS 3.4, and that's probably quite relevant. When I run xinit, while it is coming up I get lots & lots of "zs3: silo overflow" messages. If I touch the mouse, I get even more of them. Actually, it doesn't always happen, and sometimes it only happens when I touch the mouse. Something that's probably related: Occasionally, after running for a few hours, X seems to hang, and any attempts to use the mouse or keyboard get lots of "zs3: silo overflow" messages. When this happens, there seems to be nothing anyone can do except rebood. Logging in from another place and typing "kbd_mode -a" has no effect at all; nor does anything else I've thought of trying. This is a bit annoying, because this machine is a server for a couple of others, so I don't like to boot it unnecessarily. Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong? While I'm at it, there's another minor annoyance. The xterm window is generally like a vt100, but it doesn't seem to know how to move the text down. When I give vi a 'o' or 'O' command, no blank line appears, and the bottom part of the screen stays unmoved. Vi thinks it has inserted a blank line, of course, , with results that are sometimes quite confusing. A ^L clears it up, but it'd be better if it worked correctly. Any idea of what to do to make it work? -- From: John Chambers <heart-of-gold.mitre.org!jc> From ...!linus!!heart-of-gold!jc (John Chambers 617/217-2285) [The above opinions were packaged by volume, not by weight; some settling of contents may have occurred during distribution.]
sundar@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU (Sundar Narasimhan) (02/12/89)
Anyhow, on to the next question. This is a Sun 3/260, with SunOS 3.4, and that's probably quite relevant. When I run xinit, while it is coming up I get lots & lots of "zs3: silo overflow" messages. If I touch the mouse, I get even more of them. Actually, it doesn't always happen, and sometimes it only happens when I touch the mouse. I suspect from your description that this is a bug in Sun OS 3.4 & 3.5, that bit us in quite a different way (we were using a bus-to-bus adaptor and the zs code was buggy causing the same behaviour to happen on our Sun 3/280 machines). It is allegedly fixed in versions 3.5.2 or greater. (I was told earlier by Sun that 3.5 fixed it, but when we tried 3.5 the same behaviour persisted. We just switched to 3.5.2 and haven't seen it yet -- but we haven't fully tested it, so we can't be completely sure yet). -Sundar