[Wine] Wine + serial port basically hangs system

[Uwe Bonnes]

>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Armbrust <daniel.armbrust.list at gmail.com> writes:

    Dan> I'm trying to use Wine to run a program called heavy weather - its
    Dan> a windows only program that interfaces with a weather station that
    Dan> I have through a serial port.

    Dan> I was able to get the program up and running with wine.  Then, I
    Dan> couldn't get it to connect at all to the weather station.

    Dan> After much too long, I finally realized that the problem was that
    Dan> my permissions on /dev/ttyS0 were too restrictive - I change them,
    Dan> and now the program connects up, and pulls in data.

    Dan> The next problem, however, is that as soon as I start the program,
    Dan> the system load starts to skyrocket.  5, 6, 7... and climbing.
    Dan> Soon, the mouse starts to become jerky, and its hard to change
    Dan> windows.  Within about 2 minutes, the mouse doesn't work at all,
    Dan> and remote terminals stop responding.  The system load is up in the
    Dan> 40s.

    Dan> As soon as I unplug the serial cable, everything goes back to
    Dan> normal.

    Dan> Here is some information that is being kicked out to the command
    Dan> line:

Are you using a recent wine version? There was a leak in my patches, causing
a flood of processes.
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