They are much the same on the Linux console too as far as I can tell with yes. I guess you are doing something different, either using tmux over ssh, or using a relatively old machine.
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:20:57AM +0000, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > I thought it might be xterm, so I tried rxvt. And indeed now screen can > terminate yes pretty much instantly. > > But so can tmux. So no help there. > > > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 03:59:39PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > I've never had this level of problem with screen, at all, and I used > > it for many many years for everything. > > > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:43:04PM +0000, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > > > screen does not successfully rate limit either or if it does > > > nobody has yet to clearly demonstrate a case where it does. It's > > > response times for running eg "yes" and hitting ^C or creating a > > > new window are roughly the same as tmux, give or take a few > > > seconds. > > > > 0____o > > > > We're seeing *very* different behaviour, then. > > > > In a bare terminal or in a fresh screen, after running "yes" for 30 > > seconds, I get my prompt back as close to instantly as makes no > > difference. > > > > In tmux it takes 8 seconds. > > > > When I said that it was taking 10 minutes for ^t0 to register, I > > wasn't exaggerating. screen had lag, but never anything remotely > > like this. > > > > Running "yes $(seq 1 100)" for 30 seconds, and hitting ctrl-c, tmux > > took *another 36 seconds* to get me my prompt back. > > > > -Robin > > > > -- > > http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. > > Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot > > is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" > > is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
