Input buffer overflow (was: Nudibranch problems (Mac))

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Mon May 21 20:54:20 UTC 2001


On Mon, 21 May 2001, Bernd Kulawik wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a little problem running squeak 3.0 on x86-Linux on my Laptop
> (Toshiba):
> After starting squeak and a swiki from the x-term everything works fine,
> but when I take a look back at the terminal, I read lines over lines of
> "input buffer overflow" - though this may not be important on a
> stand-alone Laptop, it might be dangerous on other machines.
> What could be the reason?

There are more events generated than the system is able to handle. It's
not dangerous, the eldest events get dropped. You can increase the event
buffer size in sqXWindow.c to overcome this.

-- Bert






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