Re: slow console

2013-10-05 Thread Matthieu Herrb
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 06:52:29PM -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Jan Stary [h...@stare.cz] wrote: > > > > On Sep 23 14:50:44, ch...@nmedia.net wrote: > > > Without a dmesg, Xorg.log, and those sort of things, > > > how can anyone possibly give you a clue? > > > > > > With KMS and such, there ar

Re: slow console

2013-09-24 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Kevin Chadwick [ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk] wrote: > > Under X, KMS performance should be faster on a lot of > > hardware. The whole point of KMS is to bring modern, better > > supported drivers to OpenBSD (and get rid of the crappy X > > security model). > > I hope that's true but I think the most im

Re: slow console

2013-09-24 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> Under X, KMS performance should be faster on a lot of > hardware. The whole point of KMS is to bring modern, better > supported drivers to OpenBSD (and get rid of the crappy X > security model). I hope that's true but I think the most important point is that it is slower because it is so much s

Re: slow console

2013-09-24 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Paul de Weerd [we...@weirdnet.nl] wrote: > > > > Probably the updates to your (now graphical) terminal. Time is spent > > updating the frame buffer. Consider it a feature: you can now > > (better) read along with what's happening ;) > >

Re: slow console

2013-09-23 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Paul de Weerd [we...@weirdnet.nl] wrote: > > Probably the updates to your (now graphical) terminal. Time is spent > updating the frame buffer. Consider it a feature: you can now > (better) read along with what's happening ;) > > A workaround is to start processes that produce lots of output in

Re: slow console

2013-09-23 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Jan Stary [h...@stare.cz] wrote: > > On Sep 23 14:50:44, ch...@nmedia.net wrote: > > Without a dmesg, Xorg.log, and those sort of things, > > how can anyone possibly give you a clue? > > > > With KMS and such, there are major changes > > which may impact some hardware more than others. > > This

Re: slow console

2013-09-23 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:40:57PM +0200, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: | > Why is this and what can I do about it? Probably the updates to your (now graphical) terminal. Time is spent updating the frame buffer. Consider it a feature: you can now (better) read along with what's happening

Re: slow console

2013-09-23 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Jan Stary [h...@stare.cz] wrote: > Since some time ago, the text console seems to be very slow. > > if I stay in the xterm window, it takes forever. > > This is happening in both the text console and an xterm, > with or without running tmux (so I don't think it's tmux's fault). > > Why is this a

Re: slow console

2013-09-23 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:25:36PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > Since some time ago, the text console seems to be very slow. Since the change to KMS. Linux has the same problem. > > For example, a compilation of a TeX file takes very long if run > just like `tex file.tex'; but when run as 'tex file

slow console

2013-09-23 Thread Jan Stary
Since some time ago, the text console seems to be very slow. For example, a compilation of a TeX file takes very long if run just like `tex file.tex'; but when run as 'tex file.tex > /dev/null', it gets much faster, presumably by not having to do the textual output. Similarly for a lengthy ./confi