From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 22 19:26:19 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 AE52616A4CE for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:26:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from priv-edtnes56.telusplanet.net (outbound01.telus.net [199.185.220.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58A2643D46 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:26:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mayo@mayo.sk) Received: from [192.168.0.20] (really [206.116.12.28]) by priv-edtnes56.telusplanet.netESMTP <20040822192618.UYSP22966.priv-edtnes56.telusplanet.net@[192.168.0.20]>; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 13:26:18 -0600 From: Mayo Jordanov To: Anish Mistry In-Reply-To: <200408191142.53999.mistry.7@osu.edu> References: <200408141934.24107.dfr@nlsystems.com> <1092903551.85924.14.camel@einstein.local.nfy> <200408191019.15653.dfr@nlsystems.com> <200408191142.53999.mistry.7@osu.edu> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-8rPqZGVnJXh1GcdD2yRm" Message-Id: <1093202778.747.6.camel@einstein.local.nfy> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 12:26:18 -0700 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Issues with the nvidia driver 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: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:26:19 -0000 --=-8rPqZGVnJXh1GcdD2yRm Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 08:42, Anish Mistry wrote: > On Thursday 19 August 2004 05:19 am, Doug Rabson wrote: > > On Thursday 19 August 2004 09:19, Mayo Jordanov wrote: > > > First of all, thank you and Nvidia for all the work. > > > > > > I've been using the driver since it has been announced here, and it > > > works great for most of things (dual head X, etc, etc), however, I > > > see some issues with GL. > > > > > > When I run glxgears (or any program that uses GL - glxgears and some > > > of the X screen savers is what I've been testing with) it runs just > > > fine, giving me around 2500fps. > > > As soon as I stop glxgears, and run it again, it will produce about > > > 6fps. In order to get it back up to speed, I have to wait between 10 > > > or 20 minutes; after that it runs just fine again. If I quit it, and > > > run again, I get around 3 to 6 fps, wait 10 to 20 mins, and on and > > > on. > Twiddling this sysctl should fix your problem: > vm.old_msync >=20 > My friend had the same issue and that solved it. > - --=20 > Anish Mistry This did help in that running gl* applications one after another would work fine, however it gave me lots and lots of coredumps (randomly too). I ended up cvsupping like suggested, and that helped it completly. Thanks, m --=-8rPqZGVnJXh1GcdD2yRm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBKPNa3IqYlN3K/uYRApUYAKDEr2xMVZ0WOzaTebX0NIQn2lZo8QCgsgli xlxUQgzOFbLkCsuWcP9kXrc= =voEf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-8rPqZGVnJXh1GcdD2yRm--