Hi

Just testing out the T2000 server and have noticed that the console is
very slow. The screen will "draw" each line when I use vi or say ls
commands. Has anyone experienced this as well? How do I increase its
refresh speed?

Thanks in advance.

solaris9000 wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just testing out the T2000 server and have noticed that the console is
> very slow. The screen will "draw" each line when I use vi or say ls
> commands. Has anyone experienced this as well? How do I increase its
> refresh speed?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

This is a general problem on all SPARC based Suns. The reason is that
the console support code of the framebuffers is implemented in Forth.

This is generally not a big problem, because most people use ttya as
console. This has the advantage that you can do almost all admin work
over the network.

For a T2000 this is really the way to go. For a workstation one
generally tries to fire up X11 as soon as possible, when one has to do
anything on the console. But one could attach a PC to ttya on a
workstation, too.

Cheers,
Tom