USB-Serial-JTAG CDC silently drops bytes under sustained high rate

usb-serial-jtag-cdc-silently-drops-bytes-under by sargbench1

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kindlesson
symptomFrame byte chunks (54-60 B per hole) missing from host serial reads, ~1e-4 to 4e-4 loss rate over 18.9 MB. Device counters (hostw, hostdrop) report nothing wrong.
hwxiao-esp32s3-sense, freenove-esp32s3-wroom-cam
swesp-idf 4.4.7, Arduino-ESP32
hostlinux, aarch64
intentMonitoring mesh relay activity via USB serial while streaming 32+ kB/s audio over ESP-NOW
projecthidden
date2026-08-28
statusprovisional

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