From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 14:58:55 +0100 From: Dante To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <25920c5f569c11e3ad75afb21ed626b9@hamnavoe.com> References: <25920c5f569c11e3ad75afb21ed626b9@hamnavoe.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Posteo Webmail Subject: Re: [9fans] 9PI kernel stability Topicbox-Message-UUID: 43986604-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 09.02.2015 10:48, Richard Miller wrote: >> 1. Text windows sometimes get black "garbage" on the background that >> refuses to go, even if text is scrolled over it. >> The size of the "garbage" is about 1 character, and looks like an >> "island". That is, neither meaningful symbol, nor random pattern. > > There are known race conditions in the soft cursor code (not just on > the pi). Could the black island be a "mouse dropping"? Yes, that's "mouse droppings" :-). > >> 2. When writing large files to an USB memory stick FAT file system >> (say, >> a large TAR archive), the mount is lost, leading to a truncated file. > > Try putting the memory stick on a powered usb hub and see if that works > better. I did, and for this reason I suspect the USB driver and not the power supply.