{"id":6968,"date":"2005-12-06T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/2005\/12\/06\/waiting\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T13:38:10","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T03:38:10","slug":"waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/2005\/12\/06\/waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed <a href=\"http:\/\/ozlabs.org\/~cyeoh\/diary.cgi\/2004\/11\/05#gnome-terminal\">Chris&#8217; post<\/a> WRT the relative slowness of gnome-terminal vs xterm.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m waiting just now to take Kate&#8217;s remaining belongings to her brothers&#8217;, so while I&#8217;ve got a few minutes I thought I&#8217;d investigate myself.<\/p>\n<p>Chris was winging about make clean, which is obviously going to be the worst case. Although that&#8217;s interesting, I thought I&#8217;d look at an actual compile, so I benchmarked a kernel compile.<\/p>\n<pre>~src\/kernel\/2.6.9-uml$ time make ARCH=um V=1<\/pre>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<th>Terminal<\/th>\n<th>Time<\/th>\n<th><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>konsole on another desktop<\/td>\n<td>4:05<\/td>\n<td>100%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>xterm<\/td>\n<td>4:16<\/td>\n<td>104%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>aterm<\/td>\n<td>4:24<\/td>\n<td>108%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>gnome-terminal<\/td>\n<td>5:17<\/td>\n<td>129%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>konsole<\/td>\n<td>5:23<\/td>\n<td>132%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Obviously konsole on another desktop is sort of cheating. The konsoles, gnome-terminal and aterm are all running transparent. That is with the desktop image showing through but slightly faded towards white. xterm is just using a plain white background. konsole and gnome-terminal are also using anti-aliased fonts, whereas aterm and xterm aren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Chris, being one of the fvwm crowd ;), likes the speed of xterm, and fair enough. Personally I like to see my pretty desktop backgrounds, and anti-aliased fonts I can&#8217;t live without &#8211; so I&#8217;ll stick with konsole.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to know though that if I&#8217;m running some compile that generates lots of output for no good reason, I should plonk the window on another desktop. I actually do that usually anyway, to stop it annoying me. I use this little script to let me know when a long compile or the like has finished.<\/p>\n<pre><code>#!\/bin\/bash\r\n\r\neval $@\r\nif [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then\r\n    kdialog --msgbox \"Command '$@' in $(pwd) completed.\" 2&gt; \/dev\/null\r\nelse\r\n    kdialog --error \"Command '$@' in $(pwd) failed!\" 2&gt; \/dev\/null\r\n    exit 1\r\nfi\r\nexit 0\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m off to deliver some boxes. One step closer to a sane house!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed Chris&#8217; post WRT the relative slowness of gnome-terminal vs xterm. I&#8217;m waiting just now to take Kate&#8217;s remaining belongings to her brothers&#8217;, so while I&#8217;ve got a few minutes I thought I&#8217;d investigate myself. Chris was winging about make clean, which is obviously going to be the worst case. Although that&#8217;s interesting, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[17,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}