On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 09:58:52AM -0800, Greg A. Woods wrote: > At Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:03:52 +1100, Paul Ripke <[email protected]> wrote: > Subject: Re: 11.0_BETA amd64 build aborted at `checkflist' > > > > It shouldn't stall, with GNU screen or tmux. Both allow output to continue > > to a disconnected session. > > All buffers eventually fill and block, or fill and fail! > > I wonder what tmux actually does. I can't find any obvious mention in > the docs or sources of how much scrollback or buffering it does.
Or fill and recycle... tmux has a setting 'history-limit' which is the number of lines of history kept per window. > Most regular terminal emulators limit the amount of scrollback text they > save. Some might have the option to "limit to available memory", like > macos Terminal, which can really hose you if it causes paging that then > stalls the system! Yah, on my beefy systems, I use 10k+ lines and 20+ "windows", on older machines, maybe 2k lines over 4 or 5 windows. -- Paul Ripke "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." -- Disputed: Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt. 1948.
