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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:46:53 -0600
Subject: Re: [9fans] Drawterm Performance on Different OSes
From: vdharani@infernopark.com
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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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