This is all over SSH, via PuTTY from windows, to a new/fast linux
box in the same house.  I'll give you more details on the terminals
in a bit.

-Robin

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:29:27AM +0000, Nicholas Marriott wrote:
> They are much the same on the Linux console too as far as I can tell
> with yes. I guess you are doing something different, either using tmux
> over ssh, or using a relatively old machine.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:20:57AM +0000, Nicholas Marriott wrote:
> > I thought it might be xterm, so I tried rxvt. And indeed now screen can
> > terminate yes pretty much instantly.
> > 
> > But so can tmux. So no help there.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 03:59:39PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > > I've never had this level of problem with screen, at all, and I used
> > > it for many many years for everything.
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:43:04PM +0000, Nicholas Marriott wrote:
> > > > screen does not successfully rate limit either or if it does
> > > > nobody has yet to clearly demonstrate a case where it does. It's
> > > > response times for running eg "yes" and hitting ^C or creating a
> > > > new window are roughly the same as tmux, give or take a few
> > > > seconds.
> > > 
> > > 0____o
> > > 
> > > We're seeing *very* different behaviour, then.
> > > 
> > > In a bare terminal or in a fresh screen, after running "yes" for 30
> > > seconds, I get my prompt back as close to instantly as makes no
> > > difference.
> > > 
> > > In tmux it takes 8 seconds.
> > > 
> > > When I said that it was taking 10 minutes for ^t0 to register, I
> > > wasn't exaggerating.  screen had lag, but never anything remotely
> > > like this.
> > > 
> > > Running "yes $(seq 1 100)" for 30 seconds, and hitting ctrl-c, tmux
> > > took *another 36 seconds* to get me my prompt back.
> > > 
> > > -Robin
> > > 
> > > -- 
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