Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [bisected] pty performance problem | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Date | Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:41:59 +0100 |
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On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 12:29 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > While I could rewrite the communications to optionally use pipes, or > > get the client to reprocess a log file locally, what I have does seem > > a reasonable use of ptys. > > Wouldn't argue with that. The tty layer queues the characters which then > get processed but at the moment get processed after the next timer tick > not when the CPU is idle. That wants changing and it strikes me as utterly > dumb in general to be deferring work when the CPU is idle.
*blink*, up to 10 ms thumb twiddling session?
I wouldn't mind having a copy of the stripped down test proggy.
-Mike
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