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    SubjectRe: 2.6 vs 2.4, ssh terminal slowdown
    Hi Grant,

    On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 03:51:24PM +1100, Grant Coady wrote:
    > On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 14:00:59 +1100, Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:
    >
    > >This is the terminal's fault. xterm et al use an algorithm to determine how
    > >fast your machine is and decide whether to jump scroll or smooth scroll. This
    > >algorithm is basically broken with the 2.6 scheduler and it decides to mostly
    > >smooth scroll.
    >
    > Strange it does that over localnet to a PuTTY terminal on windoze.
    >
    > Seems a strange thing to do in the kernel though, presentation
    > buffering / management surely can be done in userspace?

    I suspect the sshd on the firewall gets woken up for each line and it
    behaves exactly like an xterm. After having done a lot of "ls -l|cat"
    on 2.6, I'm not surprized at all :-/

    A good test would be to strace sshd under 2.4 and 2.6. You could even
    use strace -tt. Probably that you will see something like 1 ms between
    two reads on 2.6 and nearly nothing between them in 2.4.

    > Grant.

    Cheers,
    Willy

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