Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:25:57 -0700 From: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Giant Xorg and Performance Issues Message-ID: <20041026072557.GA29860@alzatex.com>
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--7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have had various performance issues on FreeBSD since I installed 5.2.1 a few months back. Basically, it seems that it's easy to load the system down enough to interrupt xmms playing music which is very bad for me. I'm wondering if 5.2.1 has had lower performance levels than the 4.x line. I've recently upgraded to 5.3-BETA7 and noticed only slight improvements. I usually just run fvwm2 with gkrellm, xmms, and lot's of xterms so I wouldn't think my system should have much issue with that. It's a Pentium3 Celeron 600Mhz with 128 Megs of ram, is my system just under spec? Running a portupgrade in the background usually renders the system unusable for playing music and even running mozilla can sometimes slow the system enought to interrupt the sound. Also, I noticed the following in top: 46142 root 96 0 67268K 24576K RUN 8:04 1.07% 1.07% Xorg 45853 sttng359 96 0 30548K 12112K select 0:35 0.00% 0.00% Xorg Both Xorg servers are logged in as a regular user, the first server was started from kdm and the second from startx. The first one is running my usual fvwm desktop and the second is running kde for a test. Why does the server run from kdm take more ram even with a light desktop? Could my performance problems be related to this causing my system to swap a lot? But even 30 megs for Xorg seems a lot to me since I've run X with fvwm+xterm on a laptop with 48 megs of ram just fine. --=20 I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C =20 --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBffwF+vN6RuSjKAwRAs6wAKDAucFw2dJBdR+/nsvXIf8fExw28gCgv5km bs82RC/wfOS5HY47Uz3HVM4= =srkv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z--
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