Re: 2.6 vs 2.4, ssh terminal slowdown

[Grant Coady]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 14:00:59 +1100, Con Kolivas <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Strange it does that over localnet to a PuTTY terminal on windoze.

Seems a strange thing to do in the kernel though, presentation 
buffering / management surely can be done in userspace?

Grant.
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