1.3.76 and VT switching
Thomas =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6nig?= (Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:12:49 +0100 (MET)
I just had a rather strange experience with 1.3.76. I had just
connected to a few thousand hosts (using ssh-keyscan) and was
recompiling the kernel, when I wanted to switch virtual terminals.
The system didn't react to this for a few seconds at a time. I could
scroll back in the VT with immediate effect, and pressing Enter also
worked.
After a few seconds, the switches were indeed done; apparently,
no keystrokes were lost, the system just waited for a few seconds
before doing anything.
At the time, nothing was in swap; due to the kernel compilation, there
was a rather high disk activity, though.
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Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet.
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