From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 1 07:31:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA41516A41F for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 07:31:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ext-gw.lemis.com (ext-gw.lemis.com [150.101.14.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 438CE43D45 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 07:31:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by ext-gw.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4495F1310AB; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:01:57 +1030 (CST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 28D2984F8C; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:01:57 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:01:57 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Antony Mawer Message-ID: <20051101073157.GE18710@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20051101070259.GC18710@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4367150C.4030508@mawer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wTWi5aaYRw9ix9vO" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4367150C.4030508@mawer.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Really poor performance on /dev/ttyv* only X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:31:59 -0000 --wTWi5aaYRw9ix9vO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 1 November 2005 at 18:11:08 +1100, Antony Mawer wrote: > On 1/11/2005 6:02 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> I've just installed -CURRENT on a Dell Inspiron 6000, and I discover >> that the keyboard response on virtual terminals (/dev/ttyv*) is very >> slow. If I keyboard repeat, the echo to the terminal is jerky, about >> 3 or 4 characters at a time with a marked delay in between. Under X >> or over the network there's no problem. Has anybody else seen this? >> The kernel isn't 100% GENERIC (I've disabled WITNESS and >> WITNESS_SKIPSPIN, for example), but I can't see anything that would >> explain this behaviour. > > I've seen this on two FreeBSD 4.7 systems connected via a KVM (sharing > with two Windows 2003 servers)... typing at the console of them was > almost like typing via ssh on a satellite connection. Connecting via ssh > was fine, it was only locally that it was a problem. Resetting the > keyboard repeat rate on BSD had no discernible impact. I'd guess that this is a different situation. FWIW, the Inspiron series are laptops, and this is at the keyboard. The machine is brand new, and I've never had another version of FreeBSD on it, but I suspect it's -CURRENT rather than the laptop. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --wTWi5aaYRw9ix9vO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDZxntIubykFB6QiMRAqdkAKCKpwx549XBxtLpsS9JbSFWiW87UwCeI4/P b5l+ht6PSZufiwpxpHuB1+c= =cY82 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wTWi5aaYRw9ix9vO--