On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 06:41:24PM +0100, so wrote: > On Saturday, 10 March 2012 at 15:27:00 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > >On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 04:23:43PM +0100, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: > >>On Saturday, 10 March 2012 at 15:19:15 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > >>>Since when is mouse movement a stop-the-world event on Linux? > >> > >>It's a hardware interrupt. They all work that way. You have > >>to give a lot of care to handling them very quickly and > >>not letting them stack up (lest the whole system freeze). > > > >Sure, but I've never seen a problem with that. > > Neither the OS developers, especially when they are on 999kTB ram > and 1billion core processors. [...]
Um... before my recent upgrade (about a year ago), I had been using a 500MB (or was it 100MB?) RAM machine running a 10-year-old processor. And before *that*, it was a 64MB (or 32MB?) machine running a 15-year-old processor... Then again, I never believed in the desktop metaphor, and have never seriously used Gnome or KDE or any of that fluffy stuff. I was on VTWM until I decided ratpoison (a mouseless WM) better suited the way I worked. T -- Who told you to swim in Crocodile Lake without life insurance??
