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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sat,  9 Apr 2011 08:33:40 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Busy mouse WAS: Re: Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?
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> My load is also close to zero, when just moving the mouse.  If, for
> example, I do a "du -a" in an Acme "win" window, the mouse disappears
> and/or becomes unusuably slow until Acme finishes.

sounds like a video issue, rather than a mouse issue.  i imagine
that your machine is just slow.

> Acme also hangs for me while retrieving files and directory listings on
> /n/sources.  Although the mouse remains responsive during that time,
> Acme becomes unresponsive... not even selecting text with the button1
> works.

that's how it works.  acme's threading model means that everything
comes to a screeching halt when you load a file.  you just don't
notice the delay when it's local.

> > the mouse, the i would think that the fact that your machine
> > is doing 8259-style interrupts has something to do with it.
>
> No hablo 8259. ??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8259

like the reptilian part of your brain, it proves that evolution is a
bad housekeeper.

- erik