From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 26 17:40:04 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 4EEF116A41F for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:40:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca (fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca [128.100.216.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C83A043D46 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:40:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from fields.fields.utoronto.ca (fields.localdomain [192.168.216.11]) by fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Fields 6.0) with ESMTP id j7QHe3vf016110 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:40:03 -0400 Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by fields.fields.utoronto.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Fields WS 6.0) with ESMTP id j7QHe26P007927; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:40:02 -0400 Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 594C751208; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:40:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:40:02 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Mark Kane Message-ID: <20050826174002.GA16044@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <430D3823.9070301@mkproductions.org> <20050825160909.GB10134@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <430DF015.5000203@mkproductions.org> <20050825173758.GA10790@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <430E0461.3030101@mkproductions.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="9amGYk9869ThD9tj" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <430E0461.3030101@mkproductions.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i 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 17:40:04 -0000 --9amGYk9869ThD9tj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:48:17PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > Roland Smith wrote: > >Another thing to look at might be the scheduler. I'm using SCHED_4BSD. >=20 > Hmm, I'm using just a GENERIC kernel with support added in for my sound= =20 > driver and atapicam for K3b. SCHED_4BSD looks default in GENERIC: >=20 > options SCHED_4BSD # 4BSD scheduler >=20 > I've been trying this morning with no real disk I/O and just XMMS open.= =20 > It's much better than if I did have a download/upload going using disk=20 > I/O or trying to read from a file on the drive, but still nowhere near=20 > perfect. Every minute I'll still hear a little skip or stutter in the=20 > audio, and still notice the mouse locking up a bit at the exact moment=20 > that happens. Did you not read my mail? I explained this and the solution. Kris --9amGYk9869ThD9tj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDD1PyWry0BWjoQKURAn39AKCEWbd4dY7VarmJ1e6RzPsXg3MF8gCgkQFz peVn5pdRI49BiYxdX0dtd+8= =sk56 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9amGYk9869ThD9tj--