[mosh-users] Initial typing latency

[Quentin Smith]

Hi Andrew,

What you're seeing is that mosh is waiting for one of its predictions to 
be confirmed (this is your first one or two characters) before it has 
enough confidence in its predictions to show you the rest.

I think there is some work to improve this, but it still will require at 
least one RTT after your first character.

Cheers,
--Quentin

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, Andrew Mason wrote:

> Hello,
> Firstly thank you for your wonderful work. I understand how difficult a task
> this is, and I am truely grateful that people are working on these problems.
>
> I regularly connect to a server with ping times around 370ms from my desktop.
> Using mosh with the -a flag  there still seems to be a noticeable input lag
> when typing initially...subsequent key presses occur instantly as you would
> expect but the first one or two characters still seemed delayed. Is this the
> correct behavior ? I was assuming local echo meant that it would mean that it
> would be similar to typing on my local machine and with our lower latency
> connections this is the behaviour that i experience.
>
> This isn't a criticism, it's still much enhanced from my previous experience.
> I was just unsure if it was intended / unavoidable or just an artifact of it
> being work in progress.
>
> Kind regards
> Andrew
>
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