process I/O is creepingly slow

[David Kastrup]

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Try the following:

M-x shell RET ls -l /etc | dd obs=1

The resulting process output crawls very very slow at first before
getting on-track.  Things like M-x compile, running AUCTeX and a lot
of other things are very negatively affected in their performance by
this process I/O bug.

In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.11 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
 of 2003-03-27 on lola.goethe.zz
configured using `configure '--prefix=/usr/local/emacs-21' '--with-gtk''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t


-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum