Re: xterm scrolling speed - scheduling weirdness in 2.6 ?!

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 00:47, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 12:33:12AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > at a time. I have yet to understand why 'ls|cat' behaves
> > differently, but fortunately it works and it has already saved
> > me some useful time.
> 
> cat probably does some buffering for you, and sends the output to xterm in
> larger blocks.

interestingly running ls on a remote machine in a directory with a
similiar amount of files (local xterm with ssh connection to that
machine) is also as fast as this ls | cat workaround...

Soeren

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