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From: sundar@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU (Sundar Narasimhan)
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Subject: zs3: silo overflow
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Date: 12 Feb 89 04:50:20 GMT
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   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