From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 26 17:08:52 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 9026C16A41F for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:08:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark@mkproductions.org) Received: from ylpvm43.prodigy.net (ylpvm43-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1329B43D45 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:08:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark@mkproductions.org) Received: from pimout1-ext.prodigy.net (pimout1-int.prodigy.net [207.115.5.65]) by ylpvm43.prodigy.net (8.12.10 outbound/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7QH8xJH002591 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:08:59 -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 pimout1-ext.prodigy.net (8.13.4 outbound domainkey aix/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7QH8jBg194286; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:08:50 -0400 Message-ID: <430F4C9D.40005@mkproductions.org> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:08:45 -0500 From: Mark Kane User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050816) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris References: <20050825160909.GB10134@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <430E0461.3030101@mkproductions.org> <20050825181931.GE10790@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <430E105D.3080509@mkproductions.org> <20050825200838.GA18166@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <430E294C.2080207@mkproductions.org> <20050825213846.GA715@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <430E3BDB.5040600@mkproductions.org> <20050825214938.GC715@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <430E55E4.9080106@mkproductions.org> <3aaaa3a050826072145276bec@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3aaaa3a050826072145276bec@mail.gmail.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: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:08:52 -0000 Chris wrote: > Try these in kernel > > OPTIONS DIRECTIO > OPTIONS NO_ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES > > and commenting options ADAPTIVE_GIANT > and disable apic. > > Tell me if that imporves or makes worse. Well I did the kernel part, but wasn't sure how you wanted me to disable APIC. I looked in the BIOS but don't see any setting like "APIC On/Off", but there is a few settings for a few IRQ's, and they are set to "Auto". If I go to those options, it shows on one of the IRQ's the network controller and one of the ata controllers, but only gives me the option to change the IRQ for both of them. After doing the kernel and rebooting, I tried again. From what I can tell, there is no change. I untarred a large source file again while playing audio, and about the same result. The mouse also froze several times when the audio was stuttering too, however most of the time I just sat back and listened and watched it untar. I tried to make an audio clip of the stuttering, but for some reason in the clip it doesn't sound half as bad as it did when coming out. I am not sure why, since I took the exact output of the sound card, ran it through a mixer here, and then back in. It should sound equally bad if not worse, but here is a link to the 45 second clip: http://www.tntpowerhost.com/mixx941/samples/SoundCardExample1.ogg I took the last 45 seconds or so of the untar because when recording it, it sounded the worst. However it's not terrible in this clip...the last 10 seconds or so is right when it finished and is playing "normal". -Mark