From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 10 03:15:08 2004 Return-Path: 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 519D716A4CE for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 03:15:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp011.mail.yahoo.com (smtp011.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 345D643D31 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 03:15:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from q_dolan@yahoo.com.au) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.100.140?) (q?dolan@203.144.21.67 with plain) by smtp011.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Jan 2004 11:15:06 -0000 From: Q To: "Loren M. Lang" In-Reply-To: <20040110102839.GA18865@alzatex.com> References: <20040110102839.GA18865@alzatex.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1073733294.4114.32.camel@boxster.onthenet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 21:14:55 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD Mailing list Subject: Re: Performance Issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 11:15:08 -0000 > 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. Do you have DMA enabled on your DVD drive (you can check using 'atacontrol mode ')? > 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. You can actually compile in dvd menu support into mplayer, but I'm not sure if it works as well as Xine. I haven't used either for playing DVDs in some time. > 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. I would use whichever works best. I don't use sound much at all so I can't really help with that.. but when I have used sound daemons in the past they have always caused me problems unless they were running with a fairly decent sized buffer cache. > 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. Try running 'top' or some other sort of system monitor to see exactly what's happening. Seeya...Q