Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: xterm scrolling speed - scheduling weirdness in 2.6 ?! | From | Soeren Sonnenburg <> | Date | Mon, 05 Jan 2004 10:18:39 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 00:47, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 12:33:12AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > at a time. I have yet to understand why 'ls|cat' behaves > > differently, but fortunately it works and it has already saved > > me some useful time. > > cat probably does some buffering for you, and sends the output to xterm in > larger blocks.
yes indeed, judging from the cat source it does chose optimal buffer size, here 1024 byte... so it reads/writes larger chunks... and jump scrolling takes place...
Hmmhh, Soeren
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