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Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:12:40 -0800
From: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6 vs 2.4, ssh terminal slowdown
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On 2/7/06, Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> 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.

Recent versions of xterm are supposed to fix this. (Skimming xterm's
changelog, I think it might have been fixed in version 201, but I'm
not completely sure.)
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-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>
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