* Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ah no, I never use those montruous environments ! xterm is already
> heavy. [...]
[ offtopic note: gnome-terminal developers claim some massive speedups
in Gnome 2.14, and my experiments on Fedora rawhide seem to
corraborate that - gnome-term is now faster (for me) than xterm. ]
> [...] don't you remember, we found that doing "ls" in an xterm was
> waking the xterm process for every single line, which in turn woke the
> X server for a one-line scroll, while adding the "|cat" acted like a
> buffer with batched scrolls. Newer xterms have been improved to
> trigger jump scroll earlier and don't exhibit this behaviour even on
> non-patched kernels. However, sshd still shows the same problem IMHO.
yeah. The "|cat" changes the workload, which gets rated by the scheduler
differently. Such artifacts are inevitable once interactivity heuristics
are strong enough to significantly distort the equal sharing of CPU
time.
Ingo
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