Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> [17-02-17 04:20]: > > In make menuconfig, under: > Device Drivers → Graphics support → Console display driver support > (700) Scrollback Buffer Size (in KB) > > I think the default was 64 but I like a big scrollback buffer. > > As you see I set 700 but really didn't have much of an idea what that > would be in lines. > > Can any one offer a close guestimate what 700 kb would be in lines. > > That is pretty close to 1 mb isn't it?... but still what is that in > lines? I'm guessing 1 MB might be around 10,000 lines. Is that even > roughly close... if so I probably should have went higher. > >
Hi Harry, Depends a little, what base you choose. Commandlines tends to be shorter than for example lines printed with the dmesg command. To get you an idea, how much "much" is: # supposing that you have command history enabled with you shell # prints the bytes count and the number of lines . You only need to # devide one by the other > history -1000 | dd | wc -l # for the other estimation you can do this > dmesg | dd | wc -l HTH! Cheers Meino
