Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 23:12:01 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: "Pokala, Ravi" <rpokala@panasas.com> Cc: Pavel Timofeev <timp87@gmail.com>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Quick question: sc(4) vs vt(4) Message-ID: <D0D2F4A0-735E-42AF-B1F4-2690546BBDB2@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <D20D1F29.144043%rpokala@panasas.com> References: <D20CC2A1.143F43%rpokala@panasas.com> <CAAoTqfs0wMcAeyUHpA1XPSfR_jKrhC9VXV0SoNKUKwBrQHdPbQ@mail.gmail.com> <D20D1F29.144043%rpokala@panasas.com>
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> On Sep 2, 2015, at 21:58, Pokala, Ravi <rpokala@panasas.com> wrote: >=20 > -----Original Message----- > From: Pavel Timofeev <timp87@gmail.com> > Date: 2015-09-02, Wednesday at 21:46 > To: Ravi Pokala <rpokala@panasas.com> > Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> > Subject: Re: Quick question: sc(4) vs vt(4) >=20 >> Hi! The only problem I experienced with vt(4) is extremely slow work in >> default mode under some virtualization platforms, for example, Hyper-V. >=20 > Thanks Pavel, that's good to know. We're mostly concerned with running on > bare metal, so that won't be a concern for us. >=20 >> vt(4) can be switched to text mode to make things better though. >=20 > Yeah, one of my colleagues found the hw.vga.textmode setting. The VGA > console is a going to be a rarely-used fallback (the expected case is > using the serial console), so staying in textmode is just fine. The performance is a bit slow until it hits userland real and virtual for me= ... Has been for months.=
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