Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:51:28 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: doug@polands.org Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to increase scrollback for FreeBSD-4.10? Message-ID: <20040816155128.GB7099@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <20040816142132.GD85541@omniresources.com> References: <4120BDA1.7030700@pacbell.net> <20040816140930.GA84216@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20040816142132.GD85541@omniresources.com>
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On 2004-08-16 09:21, doug@polands.org wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 03:09:30PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 06:58:57AM -0700, Mike wrote:
> > > When I'm on the 4.10 box the scrollback is about 200 lines. If
> > > possible I'd like to set the scroll back to 600 lines or so
> > > (at least).
> > >
> > > Question: How do I increase the scrollback on 4.10?
> >
> > That depends on the console program you're using. For an xterm(1),
> > the following in ~/.Xdefaults will give you 8k scrollback lines:
> >
> > xterm*saveLines: 8192
>
> xterm like programs allow the -sl switch lines. I've had problems with
> numbers approaching 32767 but have never nailed down exactly how many
> lines I can save. I safely use -sl 30000 for xterm, rxvt, aterm, and
> gnome-terminal.
I use screen most of the time in my terminal sessions, which also
includes a nice option for scrollback. Putting the following in my
~/.screenrc file works like a charm:
defscrollback 10000
This is IMHO a bit more preferable than using syscons scrollback,
because syscons allocates memory inside the kernel for the scrollback
buffer IIRC. I tend to prefer userspace allocations when possible, like
the xterm -sl or screen's scrollback.
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