Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:01:57 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Antony Mawer <fbsd-current@mawer.org> Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Really poor performance on /dev/ttyv* only Message-ID: <20051101073157.GE18710@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4367150C.4030508@mawer.org> References: <20051101070259.GC18710@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4367150C.4030508@mawer.org>
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--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--
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