On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 09:52:43AM +0100, Alessandro Rubini wrote: > I implemented clustering when I broke my 486-33 (a 12V power wire fell > on the motherboard). Running on a 386SX-16 with 3MB (emacs-19.22, gcc > 2.5.8, libc4, linux-1.0 I think) I had real performance problems with > gpm. > > Clustering helped a huge lot, without it the gpm cursor might go on > moving for several seconds after a gesture. With clustering it > recovered almost immediately (after paging in the daemon), so I could > use it much better. Wow. > I agree nowadays clustering can be set to 0 by default, the average > computer is much faster than that, and the problem you report is > perfectly sound (even though I didn't experience it myself). I wouldn't have noticed it if I only used the console. It's much less perceptible than in X. Andrew