Okay, good info to know. Thanks, Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry@xxxxxxxxx> 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
