On 2005-05-12 at 16:06PDT Mitch Skinner wrote: > On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 22:04 +0100, Jon Fairbairn wrote: > > I didn't do this, since increasing the buffer size in tzap > > (or using "dd ibs=19251200...") gets round the problem > > without changing kernel files. However, if the correct thing > > to do is to change them, shouldn't it be a kernel config > > option rather than a patch? > > If the problem really can be solved in user-space, then > that's clearly the way to go. I was a little fuzzy on > whether the dd options actually prevented the overflows or > just handled them without croaking the way cat does. I'm not absolutely certain. It does mean that I can STOP a recording process for a few seconds without apparently losing anything, but since I was getting the error very rarely anyway, I can't really tell if it always works in real life. J?n -- J?n Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk
