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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>overrun</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../O.html" title="O"/><link rel="previous" href="overflow-bit.html" title="overflow bit"/><link rel="next" href="overrun-screw.html" title="overrun screw"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">overrun</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="overflow-bit.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">O</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="overrun-screw.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="overrun"/><dt xmlns="" id="overrun"><b>overrun</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [techspeak] Term for a frequent consequence of data arriving
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faster than it can be consumed, esp. in serial line communications. For
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example, at 9600 baud there is almost exactly one character per
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millisecond, so if a <a href="../S/silo.html"><i class="glossterm">silo</i></a> can hold only two
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characters and the machine takes longer than 2 msec to get to service the
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interrupt, at least one character will be lost.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Also applied to non-serial-I/O communications. “<span class="quote">I forgot
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to pay my electric bill due to mail overrun.</span>” “<span class="quote">Sorry, I got
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four phone calls in 3 minutes last night and lost your message to
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overrun.</span>” When <a href="../T/thrash.html"><i class="glossterm">thrash</i></a>ing at tasks, the next
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person to make a request might be told “<span class="quote">Overrun!</span>” Compare
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<a href="../F/firehose-syndrome.html"><i class="glossterm">firehose syndrome</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 3. More loosely, may refer to a
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<a href="../B/buffer-overflow.html"><i class="glossterm">buffer overflow</i></a> not necessarily related to processing time (as in
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<a href="overrun-screw.html"><i class="glossterm">overrun screw</i></a>).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="overflow-bit.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../O.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="overrun-screw.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">overflow bit<69></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>overrun screw</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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