Re: 11.0_BETA amd64 build aborted at `checkflist'

[Paul Ripke <stix%stix.id.au@localhost>]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 09:58:52AM -0800, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> At Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:03:52 +1100, Paul Ripke <stix%stix.id.au@localhost> wrote:
> Subject: Re: 11.0_BETA amd64 build aborted at `checkflist'
> >
> > It shouldn't stall, with GNU screen or tmux. Both allow output to continue
> > to a disconnected session.
> 
> All buffers eventually fill and block, or fill and fail!
> 
> I wonder what tmux actually does.  I can't find any obvious mention in
> the docs or sources of how much scrollback or buffering it does.

Or fill and recycle... tmux has a setting 'history-limit' which is the
number of lines of history kept per window.

> Most regular terminal emulators limit the amount of scrollback text they
> save.  Some might have the option to "limit to available memory", like
> macos Terminal, which can really hose you if it causes paging that then
> stalls the system!

Yah, on my beefy systems, I use 10k+ lines and 20+ "windows", on older
machines, maybe 2k lines over 4 or 5 windows.

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Paul Ripke
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