From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 25 16:09:16 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 8F62A16A41F for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:09:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr15.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr15.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E503143D45 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:09:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr15.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j7PG99Rd063822; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:09:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9A7B3656F; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:09:09 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:09:09 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Mark Kane Message-ID: <20050825160909.GB10134@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Kane , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <430D3823.9070301@mkproductions.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qcHopEYAB45HaUaB" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <430D3823.9070301@mkproductions.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner 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 16:09:16 -0000 --qcHopEYAB45HaUaB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:16:51PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: >=20 > The issue I'm having is that every minute or two, I will hear some=20 > stuttering in any audio/video playback (will see the video freeze if=20 > video), and my mouse will freeze for a few seconds as well while this=20 > happens. It seems to happen more frequently if I have something doing=20 > disk I/O, such as downloads running, untarring files, or torrents. Right= =20 > now, I have the following applications open: My amd64 machine does not have this problem. I'm running 5.4-STABLE: FreeBSD slackbox.xs4all.nl 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Wed Aug 10 20:25:45 CEST 2005 rsmith@slackbox.xs4all.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RFS amd64 One thing I did do was enlarge the soundcard's DMA buffer in /boot/device.hints: # Larger DMA buffer for the soundcard, for better sound quality. hint.pcm.0.buffersize=3D"16384" Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --qcHopEYAB45HaUaB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDDe0lEnfvsMMhpyURAszGAJ4z23fO2UUwasP28YdI8xrWo8JZXwCeMCHm IiYCL6NB8LTidQ0qpM8Hjd8= =lAxk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qcHopEYAB45HaUaB--