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- From: Kay Roemer <roemer@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>
- Posted-Date: Wed, 13 Jul 94 8:21:05 MESZ
- Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jul 94 08:21:05 +0200
- Message-Id: <9407130621.AA25156@hera.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>
- Subject: Re: MiNTlib (I think I'm on pl43): Bug in sprintf().
- To: howard@harry.lloyd.com (Howard Chu)
- Date: Wed, 13 Jul 94 8:21:05 MESZ
- In-Reply-To: <m0qNnCK-0000arC@lloyd.com>; from "Howard Chu" at Jul 12, 94 12:08 (noon)
- Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]
-
- > Probably normal, given that it's really polling at 60 times per second.
- > So up to 30-some characters can arrive (at 19200) before polling, and then
- > checkbttys is only called on a context switch, so yes, there could be a
- > large number of characters waiting before select returns...
-
- Well, I'm not taking of 30 characters, but about a screen full of them, ie
- about 80x25=2000! When I use modm0dev which polls at 5 times per second
- using a separate porcess I get much smaller hunks, about 500.
-
- Kay.
-