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[Egmont Koblinger <egmont@xxxxxxxxx>]

Beware that:

- The scrollback contents need to reside somewhere.  Currently it's on
disk (compressed as of 0.40, but still).  We shouldn't surprise users by
filling up their disks.

- Content rewrapping on resize starts to become noticably slow at around
100.000 lines of scrollback.

IMO scrollback buffer is a conveniece feature, not something you should
heavily rely on to be present under all circumstances.  If you're
running a command that you expect to produce lot of output and you do
need the whole output, you should redirect that to a file.

That being said, you can increase it for yourself even to infinite and
deal with the drawbacks.  Given these drawbacks, I don't think the
default should be bigger than 10.000 - 50.000-ish.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1439704

Title:
  increase default scrollback limit

Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  There's a really high change that (verbose) commands exceed 8192 lines
  out output and a very small chance that a high multiple (e.g.
  8192*8192=67108864) causes any disadvantage. I think that setting a
  limit is already problematic - imagine running `btrfs check` for some
  hours and figuring out that most of you output is lost (might even be
  a problem with a scrollback limit of 67108864). Even a
  `~/.bash_history` of 50 MB shouldn't be a problem regarding average
  HDD size, btrfs compression and the ability to set `HISTSIZE` and
  `HISTFILESIZE`.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
  Package: gnome-terminal 3.14.2-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-10.10-generic 3.19.2
  Uname: Linux 3.19.0-10-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.16.2-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.356
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Thu Apr  2 13:39:10 2015
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Beta amd64 (20150326)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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