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From: vdharani@infernopark.com
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Drawterm Performance on Different OSes
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:46:53 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45303.128.107.253.38.1112161613.squirrel@www.infernopark.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88b16c59972106f2786f8a887e7ddc49@comcast.net>

hi,

> I have a Dell GX-270 at work, currently running Windows XP. I'm
> writing this using drawterm-win to my Plan 9 box at home.  Last week, I
> had gotten so fed up with Windows that I installed FreeBSD 5.3 on the
> same Dell machine at work and also drawterm-ed home, but it was so
> slow as to be unusable.  Any guesses as to why this would be?  Next
> time I put FreeBSD on, I'd like to be able to drawterm home.

i am thinking if host on which drawterm runs is set to 24bpp or 32bpp,
plan9 needs to send bulkier data for screen updates causing the
bottleneck. setting it to lower bpp may solve it? or am i wrong?

thanks
dharani



  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-30  5:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-29 16:49 Greg Pavelcak
2005-03-29 22:03 ` Russ Cox
2005-03-30  5:46 ` vdharani [this message]
2005-03-30  0:27   ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-03-30  0:33   ` Russ Cox
2005-03-30  6:19     ` vdharani
2005-04-04 23:20       ` andrey mirtchovski

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