After 7.3->8.1, moused on serial mouse draws 100% CPU

[martinko]

Michael Sperber wrote:
>
> After upgrading from 7.3 to 8.1, moused has started drawing 100% CPU
> (even when the mouse is not used).  moused -d -f doesn't output anything
> suspicious  - in particular, it does not display anything when the mouse
> is not moved.
>
> root    10833 100.0  0.1  1732  1100  v0  R+   10:51AM   8:47.62 /usr/sbin/moused -d -F 200 -A 1.5 -a 0.5 -p /dev/cuau0 -t auto -d -f
>
> FWIW, I was using the uart serial driver even on 7.3.  (Maybe this is
> also the time to mention that mouse movement got much slower after the
> move to uart - that's why the -F -A -a settings are in there.)
>
> Any help would be much appreciated!
>

I sent an email describing similar regression on 16/1/2010 but no one 
replied.  The thing is that since moving to 8.x moused in console 
consumes way too much CPU as soon as mouse starts moving.  :-/

M.