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SubjectRe: Virtual Console hungs.

> Since the Virtual Console code changed, the VCs stop responding if
> there is a lot of output to one of them.
>
> Simple test, run
>
> main() { for (;;) printf("Hello moon!\r"); }
>
> in one VC and try to use the other ones -- they are extremely slow or
> doesn't respond at all.
>
> No problem running something like this in 2.0.30 or the earlier 2.1.x
> kernels.
>
> I'm not much for fancy graphics so I do all my work in the VCs but
> this slowdown is starting to get to me. Even compiling the kernel,
> which results in some scrolling slows down the other VCs.
>
> P133, 80x50, 2.1.36.
>
> I'll be happy to hear comments.

2.1.38 here, and i have the same symptom, during kernel compile, all
the VC:s get VERY slow.

p166 running at 187.6Mhz, 64Mbyte memmory.


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