From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 25 04:52:44 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FD0E16A41F for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 04:52:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark@mkproductions.org) Received: from ylpvm29.prodigy.net (ylpvm29-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB0E143D46 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 04:52:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark@mkproductions.org) Received: from pimout4-ext.prodigy.net (pimout4-int.prodigy.net [207.115.4.203]) by ylpvm29.prodigy.net (8.12.10 outbound/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7P4qX4u007332 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:52:33 -0400 X-ORBL: [66.139.109.225] Received: from [192.168.1.25] (ppp-66-139-109-225.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net [66.139.109.225]) by pimout4-ext.prodigy.net (8.13.4 outbound domainkey aix/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7P4pIxZ087290; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:51:23 -0400 Message-ID: <430D4E45.4040105@mkproductions.org> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:51:17 -0500 From: Mark Kane User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050816) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: TRODAT References: <430D3823.9070301@mkproductions.org> <20050824212305.S75843@server1.ultratrends.com> In-Reply-To: <20050824212305.S75843@server1.ultratrends.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 04:52:44 -0000 TRODAT wrote: > Mark, > > I to am having similar problems with SATA drives, to the point where the > audio coming from XMMS sounds just TRIPPING! Well while all my drives are PATA, I should mention that I'm not even trying to play mp3s/Ogg files from any of my five drives most of the time. I run a group of Internet radio stations so most times I am listening to them. It's not the server skipping, it's for sure some kind of few second freeze of the mouse/display and the sound stutters at the same time. It's also not just audio in XMMS. I could be watching a video clip in VLC or mplayer and have some of the same results. The picture would freeze for a moment and the audio would stutter for a few seconds, then resume normal playback...and that's even with NOTHING else running but X, Xfce, and VLC. I can "manually" make it worse. As I said before, if I untar an archive like Mozilla or something it gets almost unlistenable and the mouse is constantly freezing as I move it around. > One thing that helped me was to INSURE that the dma for the > hw.ata.atapi_dma and hw.ata.ata_dma where both set to 1. DMA is for sure enabled on all the hard drives, but the optical drive remains in PIO mode. I haven't attempted to play anything from that yet, however. > Also, staying STABLE for me has been advantageous. I have not tried STABLE yet, but if it would help this and wouldn't introduce any new problems I would be happy to give it a try. -Mark