mol and macos9 on beige g3: brief hang when mouse clicked

[Dan Bullok]

I've installed mol on a 300Mhz beige G3, 320MB RAM, running gentoo linux.
I installed macos 9.1 from within mol, and it works, but I'm having a 
problem. Whenever I click on an icon or a window, the mouse freezes for 
about a second. The machine is completely unresponsive during this period. 
This does not happen when I click on a drop down menu, but it does occur 
right before a submenu pops up. This makes it impossible to doubleclick, 
because the machine is frozen for a second or so after the first click. 

 * dmesg doesn't show anything funny 
 * This happens when running mol in console or x-windows, in 8 and 15 bit 
color depth. 
 * Disabling networking and sound seems (can't be sure) to shorten the 
freeze to about half a second. 
 * The freeze doesn't seem to be related to disk access. 
 * The mouse motion is very smooth and responsive, except when dragging a 
window, when it seems very jerky. 
 * This doesn't happen with any linux native software.
 
I'm assuming that this isn't normal behavior, because macos is barely usable 
this way.

I have a wild guess about what this might be. There are certain macos system 
events (like clicking on an icon, loading/displaying a submenu) that cause 
macos to do some work behind the scenes.  My guess is that it's requesting 
something that mol can't/won't deliver in a timely fashion, for whatever 
reason.  I'm willing to run the mol debugger to try to isolate this 
problem, but it looks a bit intimidating at first glance.  Does anyone have 
any tips on how I might find out what's going on during this pause?

Thanks,
-Dan