From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 19 11:46:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63BBC16A4CE for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:46:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from wrzx35.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (wrzx35.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.3.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04D7243D2F for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:46:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from q@uni.de) Received: from wrzx34.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (wrzx34.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.3.34]) by wrzx35.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88FA4C692C; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:46:50 +0100 (CET) Received: from virusscan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wrzx34.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 464811B969; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:46:50 +0100 (CET) Received: from wrzx28.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (wrzx28.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.3.28]) by wrzx34.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E1A31B960; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:46:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from coyote.q.local (wwsx14.win-screen.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.253.14]) by mailmaster.uni-wuerzburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18346B55BA; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:46:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from roadrunner.q.local (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by roadrunner.q.local (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1JJkmUs001026; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:46:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from q@roadrunner.q.local) Received: (from q@localhost) by roadrunner.q.local (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i1JJklrS001025; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:46:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from q) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:46:47 +0100 From: Ulrich Spoerlein To: Kaarthik Sivakumar Message-ID: <20040219194647.GA781@galgenberg.net> Mail-Followup-To: Kaarthik Sivakumar , current@freebsd.org References: <868yj1aran.fsf@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <868yj1aran.fsf@comcast.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (Rechenzentrum Universitaet Wuerzburg) cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: very slow X sessions on 5.2-RC2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:46:52 -0000 --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 18.02.2004 at 00:29:51 -0500, Kaarthik Sivakumar wrote: > though, I see an option that says allocate 8MB for graphics (This is a > DELL 2400, in case it helps). I am not sure which one is really > correct here and how much memory is being "shared" for the graphics. I This means, that only 8MB are available to the graphics card. Depending on your resolution and color depth, this might be a bit to insufficent. Try raising this to 16MB or 32MB. > The kernel is quite similar to GENERIC, except that practically all > SCSI and wi stuff is out. I am not using ULE or KSE or anything. Just > whatever was default with 5.2-RC2. I am also running KDE 3.2. I know > that my machine itself can do run quite fast, as is evident when I > compile ports. I have never compiled 150 ports in such a short time > before. It only seems like the graphics part is sooo slow. Maybe I > should just get more memory, but I would like to confirm that that is > the case. Well, 2.5GHz and only 256MB is not nearly balanced. You should have at least 1/3 or 1/2 of clock rate in RAM. That means, you should go for at least 768MB better 1GB. > Swap: 1024M Total, 181M Used, 843M Free, 17% Inuse > Swap: 1024M Total, 181M Used, 843M Free, 17% Inuse > Swap: 1024M Total, 274M Used, 749M Free, 26% Inuse > Swap: 1024M Total, 328M Used, 696M Free, 32% Inuse I have 384MB RAM in my Celeron 900 and rarely use swap. Sometimes I wish I could put at least 512MB of RAM inside this BX Board... Running a P4 at 2.5GHz with only 256MB RAM, what's the point? Ulrich Sp=F6rlein --=20 PGP Key ID: F0DB9F44 Get it while it's hot! PGP Fingerprint: F1CE D062 0CA9 ADE3 349B 2FE8 980A C6B5 F0DB 9F44 I abhor a system designed for the "user", if that word is a coded pejorative meaning "stupid and unsophisticated". -- Ken Thompson --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFANRKnmArGtfDbn0QRAoT2AKCvphU2lHGcyOvyOAIPV3OnmIB72gCfWNne zeXJAHn6zIWbhUdWimrK/Rw= =c+PE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+--