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From: CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET (Jonathan Crone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Random Gurus and Dmouse
Message-ID: <8806150650.AA02347@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: 15 Jun 88 06:28:41 GMT
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I'm posting this because many people may find this of use in
their hunt for that silly bugger in a turban who keeps throwing
wierd numbers out at us.

I normally run as a system configuration, the following..
a 650k VD0:, Handshake V1.60b, Taskx , RSLClock1.3, Dmouse 1.06, and
Gomf 2.2.   (on an A1000, 2 drive, 2 meg Micron power supplied memory)

Now being a system administrator at heart, I frequently use Taskx
to twiddle priority of processesing running....
(natch i don't stomp on system stuff except to make any system task
with a priority of 10 or less, get at least 10.... (I'm paranoid)


Now with Handshake (most often because of my frequent use of it)
running i would frequently get a major visit from the
guru, or system sluggishness after moving the mouse after a screen blank...

as in i'd walk away from the system, go do something, find the screen blank,
flick the mouse to bring the system back to life, and watch as the system
gurued with a 0003, or got pissed as the mouse would suddenly react as if
someone had poured crude oil all over the screen....
(can you say... pawing the mouse like crazy and getting 1 cm per second speed?)
(I KNEW you could)
Eventually this crashes thes sytem as well.

Now being brain damaged, i figure... well SOMETHING is messing with this
system.

I look at the priority lists with Taskx after a reboot and notice something
amusing... Dmouse was running at priority 0.
Handshake was running at 1.

I let the screen blank... flicked the mouse, and guru.

I reboot. set Dmouse to priority 2... wait on screen blank.
flick... and no guru.

I put a mess of other stuff in... and noticed the same effects...
Dmouse seems happy if it seems to have a priority higher than other
user tasks.


I was begining to think that i was on drugs, as no one else had reported
any bugs like this on the net... and with half the net singing hosannas
to Dmouse, i knew that someone would have reported this...
SO i didn't say anything.

Then my friend with an A2000, called me up to bitch about how Dmouse
and word perfect or anything else was crashing his system
after screen blanks.
i said to him... You're flicking the mouse????
After a screen blank???           Yup...
word perfect???  yup...
Handshake???     Yup...    <---- bingo i think.

I asked him to remodel his startup sequence to add the CLI ChangeTaskPri
program in it so that it would set a priority of 3 to dmouse
before he ran it....
(ie..
CHANGETASKPRI 3
RUN DMOUSE  (The task for Dmouse inherits the priority)
CHANGETASKPRI 0  (set to normal again).

He stopped having gurus...

thats two people... one a semi techie (me..) and one an amiga neophyte
counting on me for assistance (silly him) :-)

Can someone tell me if i'm dreaming or what????

Incidently i also noticed this behavior with a program called
CLI wizard (it sets its priority to 20!!!!!!)
(to say the least it got chopped to 1)
(as in the guru thingy occurred before i started using taskx regularly
to twiddle performance)



Thanks

Jonathan




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Jonathan P. Crone
Vice President, AURA,  (Amiga Users of Regina Associated.)
(Regina, Sask. Canada )    (eh???)

CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET
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come on now....  does ANYONE give a damn about what i have to say?
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