From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 25 00:19:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA14365 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 00:19:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA14359 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 00:19:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id CAA00332; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 02:18:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 02:18:23 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Greg Lehey cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <19981025122928.B16609@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > > Talk about context switch out the ass... > > Have you tried it? I don't have any problems. I was being silly. (Though I do run systems that are slow enough to prohibit local apps; these I just X-kernel. Mind you these aren't FreeBSD boxes. (Not that my FreeBSD play boxes are any faster.)) On a sufficiently fast system, the speed loss from running local apps isn't measureable. On a DECstation 3100 it is. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message