can't change tty speed and buffer size on 8.0

Mikolaj Golub to.my.trociny at gmail.com
Mon Oct 12 06:10:42 UTC 2009


On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:17:15 +0200 Ed Schouten wrote:

> Hello Mikolaj,
>
> It is indeed true that the new TTY layer restricts the baud rate to
> 9600. We could consider clamping the baud rate between a certain range,
> to prevent the TTY buffer size from growing excessively.
>
> So what kind of buffer size are you interested in? Would 115200 / 5 be
> enough?

I have reviewed my logs for the last period and the line with maximum length I
have found was 6521 characters. And if I filter only those lines that I am
usually interested in then the maximum lenght has been 3288.

So 115200/5=23040 would be more then enough for me :-)

Thanks,

-- 
Mikolaj Golub


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