Re: pty behaviour

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Marcus Brinkmann <address@hidden> writes:

> I just tried to paste a massive amount of data into screen under
> GNU/Linux, and hey!  It gets stuck, flashes, and consumes 100% cpu
> time for a long time (I interrupted it eventually).  So, this is
> definitely worse behaviour than under the Hurd.

Well, then gollie gee!  

> So, if you say the behaviour is correct, and I am certainly following
> your line of argumentation, then increasing the high watermark to
> something like 4k or even 8k should be fine do avoid any problems
> people wouldn't also have under GNU/Linux.

Sure, sounds fine by me.  As long as it's got a sane limit, the limit
can be high.  It's not like we are actually reserving all that much
memory--nor is it like 8k is very much memory anyhow.

Thomas