From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 30 13:55:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C419E155AE for ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 13:55:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA06694; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:55:10 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA20889; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:55:09 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.1) id WAA33573; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:55:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:55:09 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt To: Tim Baird Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Screen saver resource hog? Message-ID: <19990630225509.B33486@sr.se> Reply-To: Gunnar Flygt References: <3.0.2.32.19990629150111.007f2420@storm.digital-rain.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19990629150111.007f2420@storm.digital-rain.com>; from Tim Baird on Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 03:01:11PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 03:01:11PM -0700, Tim Baird wrote: > I have found that the "logo" screen saver on my P75 box running 3.2-RELEASE > causes the network I/O to slow down to a horribly clunky crawl... > > Has anyone observed a similar correlation? I changed net cards (NE2000 to > Etherlink III) and it had no obvious effect. No, but I loaded the "logo" screen saver, and when it started the machine froze totally. So I guess it didn't like my video card or something. > > When the screen saver is not active, my throughput on a quiet 10BaseT net > is between 750 and 1000 kb/s . When the screen saver is active, I get > about 20 kb/s if I'm lucky, it is very bursty as well. > > Besides avoiding this saver, is there anything else someone can suggest? > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message