Dapper upgrade questions...

nodata ubuntu at nodata.co.uk
Thu Jun 1 10:12:58 UTC 2006


>> $ time for i in $(seq 1 100000); do echo -n $i; done
>
> This takes forever to start printing numbers. I reduced one zero from
> above, and my timings are:

It does take forever, but you get good numbers if you wait a bit :)

>
> xterm:
> real    0m2.210s
> user    0m1.172s
> sys     0m0.031s
> mario at mike:~$
>
> real    0m16.412s
> user    0m3.212s
> sys     0m0.039s
> mario at mike:~$
>
> I'm running this on ThinkPadR52 with 1.7 Ghz Pentium-M.
>
> Funny thing also is that gnome-terminal 'dies' after running above
> one-liner, I need to kill it, wich also leads to killing all active
> gnome-terminals I have.

Weird. Does it really die, or does it freeze for a while?

> What version of gnome/gnome-terminal are you running on fc5?

gnome-terminal-2.10.0-2




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