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JSI Tip 1326. Improving Serial Communications performance.

You can tune the performance of the Serial Service by using Regedt32 to navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Serial

The following Value Names are all type REG_DWORD entries:

 Value Name   D e s c r i p t i o n 
 ForceFifoEnable   A 1 enables FIFO (First In First Out buffer on your UART chip), a 0 disables it. If you want to enable FIFO for selected Serial ports, add these Value Names to the Parameters/Serial# sub-keys instead. 
 LogFifo   A 1 enables FIFO notification at start up, a 0 does not. 
 PermitShare   A 1 allows Serial ports to use the same IRQ. 
 RxFIFO   Using the Decimal Radix, set the number of character that the FIFO receive buffer can accumulate before generating an interrupt. The default is 8 and the maximum is 14. If you do not have a very fast processor, limit this number to 12. 
 TxFIFO   Using the Decimal Radix, set the number of character that the FIFO Transmit buffer can accumulate before generating an interrupt. The default is 1 and the maximun is 16. 16 works well on a dual processor or a fast uni-processor. 

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