bug#14616: 24.3.50; Excessive cursor movement on non-X Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:05:17 +0200
> 
> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
> > I don't have a test case for this bug, I'm afraid, but here's what I'm
> > seeing:
> 
> Oh, I just noticed from the trace.  This is repeated, time and time and
> time again:
> 
> [pid 21916]      0.000091 write(4, "\33[27;1H\33[K\33[H\33[?25l\33[33mR  [  41"..., 123) = 123
> [pid 21916]      0.000161 write(4, "\r\n\33[33mR  \33[39;49m\33[4m\33[33m[  55"..., 916) = 916
> [pid 21916]      0.000111 write(4, "\r\n\33[K\nRails ships with a default"..., 287) = 287
> [pid 21916]      0.000140 write(4, "\n* \33[1mBeta:\33[0m For testing fea"..., 675) = 675
> 
> "Rails ships with a default" is the text that's displayed on the
> screen.  So it seems to be repainting the entire screen over and over
> and over again?
> 
> That tallies with my surmise that Emacs was generating a lot a data
> traffic.

Any progress with investigating this?

Let me know if you need help.