Screen and Speakup-1.0

[Chris Peterson]

Okay, good info to know.

Thanks,
Chris



----- Original Message -----
From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: Screen and Speakup-1.0


> Because screen provides console locking code;
> you can detatch a screen and log out;
> screens can be re-attached from another machine or console;
> screen is multi-user; more than one person can use a screen session.
> Screen's termcap/terminfo is more customizable than the raw console
allowing status lines etc.
> Swap isn't wasted on getty processes running on termianls that are unused.
> If you look at top you will probably see 8 getty processes running on 8
consoles
> and although there is a lot of shared code the remainder ends up in swap
sooner or later
> if they remain unused. Also; screen doesn't use
> a pseudo tty until it is required; and hence
> saves on file descriptor usage. The default global limit
> is 4096
> descripters with 1024 per process.
>
> Regards, Kerry.
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 04:03:34PM -0600, Chris Peterson wrote:
> > Why would you run screen from the console?  Why not just login more than
> > once?
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dave Hunt" <wx1g at mediaone.net>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 3:46 PM
> > Subject: Screen and Speakup-1.0
> >
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm running Speakup 1.0 in kernel version 2.4.9-13, with a Doubletalk
LT
> > > synthesizer.
> > >
> > > I've noticed that running the Screen windowing thing causes lag in
speech,
> > > especially in Pine.  Reading in Lynx is lagged to a lesser extent.
ANy
> > > idea what's going on here?
> > >
> > > -Dave
> > >
> > >
> > >
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