I just noticed a somewhat strange behaviour of xterm. When savelines option is set to a high number, say above 10000, the output of xterm is REALLY REALY slow.<\/p>\n
Check the following examples on maximized xterm windows: XTerm*saveLines: 500 XTerm*saveLines: 1000 XTerm*saveLines: 2500 XTerm*saveLines: 5000 XTerm*saveLines: 10000 XTerm*saveLines: 11000 XTerm*saveLines: 20000 XTerm*saveLines: 32767 On my faithfull mrxvt with 32767 buffer lines this gives me: I hope you notice the difference…<\/p>\n “bug” or “feature” ? who knows…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just noticed a somewhat strange behaviour of xterm. When savelines option is set to a high number, say above 10000, the output of xterm is REALLY REALY slow. Check the following examples on maximized xterm windows: File: .xsession-errors 200074 (200kbytes) % wc -l .xsession-errors 4103 .xsession-errors % xterm -v XTerm(218) % mrxvt –help Mrxvt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":5737,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFile: .xsession-errors 200074 (200kbytes)
\n
\n% wc -l .xsession-errors
\n4103 .xsession-errors
\n% xterm -v
\nXTerm(218)
\n% mrxvt --help
\nMrxvt v0.5.1
\nOptions: XPM,Jpeg,PNG,transparent,fade,tint,textshadow,utmp,menubar,XIM,multichar_languages,scrollbars=rxvt+NeXT+xterm+sgi+plain,
\nxft,Greek,frills,linespace,24bit,selectionscrolling,256colour,cursorBlink,pointerBlank,session management,Resources
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n% time cat .xsession-errors
\ncat .xsession-errors 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.933 total
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n% time cat .xsession-errors
\ncat .xsession-errors 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 1.029 total
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n% time cat .xsession-errors
\ncat .xsession-errors 0.00s user 0.01s system 0% cpu 1.286 total
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n% time cat .xsession-errors
\ncat .xsession-errors 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 1.382 total
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n% time cat .xsession-errors
\ncat .xsession-errors 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 1.969 total
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n% time cat .xsession-errors
\ncat .xsession-errors 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 3.038 total
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n% time cat .xsession-errors
\ncat .xsession-errors 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 8.341 total
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n% time cat .xsession-errors
\ncat .xsession-errors 0.00s user 0.01s system 0% cpu 12.798 total
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\nmrxvt*saveLines: 32767
\n% time cat .xsession-errors
\ncat .xsession-errors 0.00s user 0.01s system 0% cpu 1.494 total
\n<\/code><\/p>\n