Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 02:28:39 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Performance Issues Message-ID: <20040110102839.GA18865@alzatex.com>
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--bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have been using freebsd for a couple of months now, and have enjoyed it thus far, but there are a couple of performance issues I've been having with it. Previously I was running linux on this same hardware, so all this issues are freebsd specific. Xine seems to have trouble playing movies at the beginning, it's choppy for the first several seconds, then resumes the movie normally after it's in a little ways. Even stopping and restarting, it still exhibits the same behavior at the beginning of a movie file. Also, watching dvd's on this computer is slightly choppy, but very slight. mplayer seems to do fine for dvd's and movies, but mplayer has no menu support for dvd's. I haven't had this trouble with xine on linux using much older versions to just slightly more recent than xine in the freebsd ports and I would like to have it fixed. Also, artsd has troubles. The sound is slightly scratchy coming out it and after it's been running a while, gaim sounds playing through artsd don't quite finish and echos the last bit of the sound, sounding all scratchy. Esd seems to work better, but everything I've read and seen about those two always claims that artsd is much better and higher quality than esd. After seeing the unmaintained home of esd vs. the nice home of artsd, I'd agree. Xine in linux I know had particular problems with esd while watching dvds where artsd worked fine. Not sure about xine and esd in freebsd. Lastly, the system seems slow at times after I haven't been doing much work in it, especially when I have many windows open in mozilla. I think this is just because the system is having to swap in memory, but I don't remember it being such a big problem in linux. I'm using freebsd 4.9 on a PIII 600Mhz with 128 meg ram. Freebsd has a 256 meg swap as the default of install made it. In linux, I only had a 128 meg swap. Am I just having bad luck, or is something just misconfigured on my system. I'd like to get it back to the point I had it with linux, or I might just switch back. Any suggestions would be appreciated. --=20 I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C =20 --bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE//9PX+vN6RuSjKAwRAiV7AJ99qOwwsgr5yus+qeylT3LypGYa2QCg0K0t eA3aedyaJ2QGYLz/J5CtfS8= =gnn5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5--
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