On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 04:09:16AM +1000, Julian Assange wrote:
> > 
> > The biggest speed difference I've noticed so far with Linux is that
> > ptys are slow as molasses.   On NetBSD, my emacs shell window runs
> > very fast, but on Linux, it seems like it only gets a few bytes at a
> > time, and the throughput is probably no better than 38.4k baud.
> > Skeery.
> 
> Try starting netscape twice though. linux blows netbsd away here. This
> is probably all to do with having a dynamicly sized buffer cache.

Doesn't help that the shared libraries Netscape needs are in
/emul/linux/... and not being used by anything else in the system.

jf
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