From: oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly) Subject: Re: TERM 1.0.7: How to speed it up? Date: 30 Apr 1993 03:31:39 GMT
R Ross Holder Jr (roholdr@ccu.umanitoba.ca) wrote:
: I've found Term 1.0.7 to be a very elegant piece of software. Though
: there is definately room for improvement from my perspective.
: I'm running a 386-33 with a 105MB harddisk dedicated to Linux (10MB of
: which is allocated as a swapspace) and 4MB ram. My connection with my
: University's machine is 38400 (v.42 biz) and I have term's compression
: turned off. Using tredir I run Netrek on my home machine and things
: actually work amazingly well - untill I get into a fight. Then things bog
: down - particularly when I try launching a cloud of torpedoes at someone
: or if they launch things at me.
: Does anyone know which of the below is causing this? Is it:
: a) My modem speed is too slow - Xwindows terminal links with their servers
: are much faster than a 38400 serial connection.
: b) My computer is too slow and can't process the incoming information fast
: enough. The solution is an upgrade to a 50+ MHz machine.
: c) My computer hasn't enough ram for Linux to work properly, particularly
: given the demands Netrek places on the system. The solution to the
: problem is a memory upgrade to 8+ MB ram.
: d) Term and tredir cause the lag. An improvement in performance is
: impossible. The solution here, is a SLIP link.
: e) None of the above.
: f) A combination of some/all (of) the above.
Hmm. If I understand right, you are running nethack across the link???
The solution is just to increase the 'window' parameter.
add the line 'window 11' to both ~/.term/termrc files. the window
paramater control how many packets can be in transit at once. On my
2400 baud modem, 3 is a about optimal. It allows full thruput, with a
reasonable responce time. Increaseing it risks lowering responce
times, but will probably increase thruput.
Michael