Re: You're right, I was completely wrong and the freezes I'm seeing are... who even knows what

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Ellie <el%horse64.org@localhost> writes:

> The system disk is a USB disk, since this machine has a hw issue with
> the NVMe slot. I guess that's unusual. Is it related? No idea.
>
> Often when the freezes happen the mouse still works, so I doubt
> there's some brownout USB controller situation going on (especially
> since I also ran this machine like this for almost a year under
> Linux).

This could well be related.  I have seen stalls on a per-device basis on
USB where other things (on the same controller and certainly on
different controllers) are ok.