From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David.Kastrup@t-online.de (David Kastrup) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Any idea about what makes Emacs slow reading on pipes? Date: 18 May 2003 18:28:17 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5x1xyye3y4.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <5xznllw0wp.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <84of20skuq.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84smrc47ga.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <847k8oqmn8.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> Reply-To: dak@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053275307 22410 80.91.224.249 (18 May 2003 16:28:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 16:28:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun May 18 18:28:25 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19HR1N-0005p9-00 for ; Sun, 18 May 2003 18:28:25 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19HRAm-0001Xq-00 for ; Sun, 18 May 2003 18:38:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19HR1x-0004Hh-02 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 18 May 2003 12:29:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19HR1X-00048N-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 May 2003 12:28:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19HR1V-00041q-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 May 2003 12:28:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.17]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19HR1U-0003yS-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 May 2003 12:28:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fwd05.sul.t-online.de by mailout02.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 19HR1U-0000f2-00; Sun, 18 May 2003 18:28:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (520018396234-0001@[62.226.12.133]) by fwd05.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 19HR1H-18yoiGC; Sun, 18 May 2003 18:28:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h4IGSIZF018619 for ; Sun, 18 May 2003 18:28:18 +0200 Original-Received: (from dak@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h4IGSHaX018615; Sun, 18 May 2003 18:28:17 +0200 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <847k8oqmn8.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-Sender: 520018396234-0001@t-dialin.net X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13975 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13975 kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > David.Kastrup@t-online.de (David Kastrup) writes: >=20 > > Interestingly enough, I can't reliably reproduce this effect either. > > Hilarious. Maybe it has something to do with what xterms I started as > > background processes (different nicety?). Oh, if I have a block > > cursor blinking in yet another window, this seems to help. Crazy. >=20 > So maybe neither the dd nor the infloop require 100% CPU. Maybe the > terminal (KDE program "konsole") is too slow in printing all this > stuff? Sigh. What exactly about the word "xterm" don't you understand? If you don't use a terminal program that gets more efficient as it is able to process larger batches, the exercise is pointless. --=20 David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum