[Bug: 21.5-b27] xemacs loses buffered keystrokes over ssh

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Ed Avis writes:

 > xemacs seems to lose buffered keystrokes.  That is, on a slow machine,

What do you mean by "slow"?  Your Installation suggests that you have
a 2.66GHz 4-CPU machine....

 > if I type quickly, then keystrokes disappear if xemacs hasn't had time
 > to process them.
 > 
 > I am running xemacs in text mode over ssh.  I don't see this problem
 > with xemacs running locally, nor with any other program run over ssh.

There is a known problem where the Linux kernel, ssh, and XEmacs
interact badly.  It also affects GNU Emacs.  It's been a while since
I've heard such reports, so your issue may be something different.
I'll have to dig up those reports; there was a workaround (some
unusual way to configure XEmacs or ssh).

Unfortunately, I don't observe this, and I do exactly the kind of
thing you are describing all the time.  So I guess it's system and/or
version dependent.

Please tell us the exact versions of the Linux kernel and libc (if
they are the same as your Installation below: Linux 2.6.15-gentoo-r1
and glibc 2.3.5, just confirm that), ssh, and ssl.