Re: USB mouse hiccups (was RFD: Kernel release numbering)

2005-03-20 Thread Andrew Morton
viking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 04:41:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > viking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I did note something strange. I'm running 2.6.11.2 at this moment, when I > > > tried 2.6.11.3, my USB Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse stopped mov

Re: Kernel hiccups (was USB Mouse Hiccups)

2005-03-20 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>-meat- >> I've also noted .10 is quicker off the blocks than 2.6.11 seems to be. > >Namely seems to happen around the times when I'm doing something like >mounting devfs (takes nearly 30 secs), and when I'm accessing files from >disc (bash$ less some-random-file.txt) - this can take about two seco

Re: USB mouse hiccups (was RFD: Kernel release numbering)

2005-03-20 Thread viking
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 04:41:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > viking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I did note something strange. I'm running 2.6.11.2 at this moment, when I > > tried 2.6.11.3, my USB Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse stopped moving > > from left to right, and would only mo

Re: Kernel hiccups (was USB Mouse Hiccups)

2005-03-20 Thread Nick Piggin
viking wrote: Okay - so I see I'm not the only one to see significant slowdowns in 2.6.11.x compared to 2.6.10 - guess I'll have to wait until the 4-level table thing sorts itself out... /me removes foot out of gob. The 4-level page tables slowdowns don't explain the problems you are seeing. 2.6.12

Re: Kernel hiccups (was USB Mouse Hiccups)

2005-03-20 Thread viking
Okay - so I see I'm not the only one to see significant slowdowns in 2.6.11.x compared to 2.6.10 - guess I'll have to wait until the 4-level table thing sorts itself out... /me removes foot out of gob. -- /| _,.:*^*:., |\ Cheers from the Viking family, including Pippin, our cat | |_/' vik

Re: USB mouse hiccups

2005-03-20 Thread viking
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 04:41:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > viking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I did note something strange. I'm running 2.6.11.2 at this moment, when I > > tried 2.6.11.3, my USB Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse stopped moving > > from left to right, and would only mo

Re: USB mouse hiccups (was RFD: Kernel release numbering)

2005-03-20 Thread Andrew Morton
viking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I did note something strange. I'm running 2.6.11.2 at this moment, when I > tried 2.6.11.3, my USB Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse stopped moving > from left to right, and would only move up and down if I physically moved > the mouse from left to right. I d

Kernel hiccups (was USB Mouse Hiccups)

2005-03-20 Thread viking
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:20:04 +0100, viking wrote: -blather- > at least I *think* they're Linus' patches - no Visual Basic in them yet. Guess that means Linus hasn't flipped his lid. So we won't see Linux-4.0 for MSVC any time soon. Heh he - the ultimate virus would be if a Linux kernel could inst

USB mouse hiccups (was RFD: Kernel release numbering)

2005-03-20 Thread viking
-blather- It took a few days before I actually saw this posting. I also agree that 2.6.10 seems to be more stable than 2.6.11 - mind you, that could be because I'm using 2.6.10-linus (i.e. the tarball from the linux.org site) and the 2.6.11 is a Mandrake-ised kernel + Linus patches - at least I *th