Re: Virtual console slowness?
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
20 Apr 1997 19:26:45 GMT
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.93.970419051654.2725A-100000@lamprey>
By author: aaron t porter <atporter@entropy.muc.muohio.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I too noticed this under 2.1.35, with as low a load as .46
> keyboard response on another virtual terminal felt like a 1200 modem.
> Switched back to 2.1.29 (last kernel I had handy) and the problems
> disappeared. I had SMP enabled on a UP machine, haven't rebooted with my
> properly compiled kernel yet.
>
Did you compile in serial console? If so, everything is echoed to the
serial port at 9600 baud.
-hpa
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