On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 14:00 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> This is the terminal's fault. xterm et al use an algorithm to
> determine how fast your machine is and decide whether to jump scroll
> or smooth scroll. This algorithm is basically broken with the 2.6
> scheduler and it decides to mostly smooth scroll.
>
Hmm, I've been having a similar problem for ages. If I just do "ls" in
my home directory 10 or 20 times, approximately 20% of the time it's
"fast":
real 0m0.177s
user 0m0.028s
sys 0m0.027s
And the rest of the times it's "slow":
real 0m1.240s
user 0m0.036s
sys 0m0.040s
I rarely get anything in between - it's either ~1.2s or ~0.2s.
"time ls | cat" is always fast - 0.18 - 0.35s.
real 0m0.188s
user 0m0.014s
sys 0m0.018s
It has been this way as long as I can remember and it never made
sense...
Lee
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