Re: Good value for defobuflimit

[Nikolai Weibull]

On 10/22/06, Michael Parson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 12:19:14AM +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > The following line has been in my screenrc for about two years now,
> > and the question remains unanswered:
> >
> > #defobuflimit 16384 # TODO: what's a good value?
> >
> > Does anyone have an equation for calculating a good value?
>
> It's entirely dependant on the speed of your terminal.

I realize that, hence the request for an equation.

> If you're on a dialup, you might want to bump it up, if it's local or a decent
> broadband, you're probably OK with the default of 256 bytes.  16k seems
> high enough for just about anything.

OK.  And what's the reasoning here?

 nikolai