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From: rand@cs.UND.NoDak.Edu (Douglas K. Rand)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: ed0: warning - reciever ring buffer overflow
Date: 19 Sep 1993 13:15:46 -0500
Organization: University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
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To: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
In-reply-to: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za's message of 19 Sep 93 09:52:00 GMT

>>>>> "Rand" == Douglas K. Rand <rand@cs.und.nodak.edu>
>>>>> "Geoff" == Geoff Rehmet <g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za>

    Rand> I've been getting a lot of these warnings:

    Rand> ed0: warning - reciever ring buffer overflow

    Geoff> In my experience this can happen occasionally (when you are
    Geoff> loading the network heavily) and isn't really worth
    Geoff> worrying about.

I probably wasn't very clear in my original post. In a span of 10
minutes I've gotten over 100 of these warnings. They almost always
happen when I'm heavily using NFS, and they even seem to cause

	nfs server <host>:<mnt-point>: not responding
	nfs server <host>:<mnt-point>: is alive again

messages. 
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