From: Mike Johnson (mjohnson@davesworld.net)
Date: Tue May 30 2000 - 03:38:50 CEST
color me silly.. I believe I'll try the same!
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From: "Alfie Costa" <agcosta@gis.net>
To: <mulinux@sunsite.auc.dk>
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: [mu TECH] terminal speed
> On 29 May 2000, at 16:01, Mike Johnson <mulinux@sunsite.auc.dk> wrote:
>
> > Look at memory usage in the two cases and see if a larger
> > buffer is being used in the high baud rate. If so, then that will show
you
> > what trade-offs you have to make...
> >
> > In other words, I agree so long as you have enough memory.
>
> Haven't checked the memory usage, (as far as buffer sizes go), yet. I'm
not
> sure where to look for whether the buffer size is larger. Would the
'free'
> command do this?
>
> Informal results so far... tested on a 4 meg laptop, in which mu only
sees 2.7
> megs, so really it's less than 3 megs, though it uses a 16 meg swap file.
It
> is a sluggish system that shows bottlenecks well. mu seems noticeably
faster
> at 115200bps, and even faster at 230400bps. Not only is the console
faster,
> but for some reason there is less swapping to disk, which speeds up the
system
> as a whole. For example, the 'ps' command is a lot quicker...
>
> At 345600bps however, mu hangs with 6 'Init Id: c1: respawning too fast :
> disabled for 5 minutes' errors.
>
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