After I returned from my vacation last week, I set about upgrading my
systems to the latest -stable. The short version of the story is that I
had to fall back to an earlier version, since the psm driver has been
made essentially unusable. I saw a thread about psm-related panics but
I didn't see those; rather I saw what appeared to be very serious loss
of either characters or interrupts. I suspect the latter since "systat
-vmstat" reported a tiny fraction of the number of interrupts that
should have been generated by mouse movement (on the order of 5%).
This was with a kernel and world as of 9/1. I dropped back to a kernel
from 8/10 and all was well. I haven't had a chance to further narrow
this down, but I just wanted to check whether this is a known
problem...?
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