[gpm]imps2 repeater

[Andrew Pimlott]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 09:52:43AM +0100, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
> I implemented clustering when I broke my 486-33 (a 12V power wire fell
> on the motherboard). Running on a 386SX-16 with 3MB (emacs-19.22, gcc
> 2.5.8, libc4, linux-1.0 I think) I had real performance problems with
> gpm.
> 
> Clustering helped a huge lot, without it the gpm cursor might go on
> moving for several seconds after a gesture. With clustering it
> recovered almost immediately (after paging in the daemon), so I could
> use it much better.

Wow.

> I agree nowadays clustering can be set to 0 by default, the average
> computer is much faster than that, and the problem you report is
> perfectly sound (even though I didn't experience it myself).

I wouldn't have noticed it if I only used the console.  It's much
less perceptible than in X.

Andrew