Messages in this thread | | | Subject | 1.3.76 and VT switching | Date | Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:12:49 +0100 (MET) | From | (Thomas König) |
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I just had a rather strange experience with 1.3.76. I had just connected to a few thousand hosts (using ssh-keyscan) and was recompiling the kernel, when I wanted to switch virtual terminals. The system didn't react to this for a few seconds at a time. I could scroll back in the VT with immediate effect, and pressing Enter also worked.
After a few seconds, the switches were indeed done; apparently, no keystrokes were lost, the system just waited for a few seconds before doing anything.
At the time, nothing was in swap; due to the kernel compilation, there was a rather high disk activity, though. -- Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet. The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram.
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