From: Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com>
To: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>
Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6 vs 2.4, ssh terminal slowdown
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:41:09 +1100
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On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:12:40 -0800, "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com> wrote:

>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.)

Yeah but I'm using ssh to PuTTY on windoze.  No GUI on linux box.

Grant.
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