From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 1 18:08:53 2005 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 6847F16A4CE for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 18:08:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F1E43D3F for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 18:08:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j31I8kSt097211; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 20:08:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8C45D625B; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 20:08:46 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 20:08:46 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Josh Paetzel Message-ID: <20050401180846.GC84746@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <200504011149.15718.josh@tcbug.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pAwQNkOnpTn9IO2O" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200504011149.15718.josh@tcbug.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! Organization: Me, organized? X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound stutters and mouse slows way down 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: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 18:08:53 -0000 --pAwQNkOnpTn9IO2O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:49:15AM -0600, Josh Paetzel wrote: > I am using a Gigabyte server/workstation board for my desktop. It is=20 > a dual socket A board. I have 2x 2400MP athlons in it along with 768=20 > megs of RAM. My load averages tend to be around 1.00 -> 3.00 with=20 > CPU utilization 30-40% idle. >=20 > My problem is that cvs, bzip2/bunzip2, and tar bring my system to it's=20 > knees. Sound stutters badly even though I have set XMMS to use 5=20 > megs of buffering. The mouse slows way down and gets jerky as well. =20 >=20 > I am running 5.3-RELEASE-p6. You might be able to fix sound by enlarging the sound subsystem's DMA buffer. Add 'hint.pcm.0.buffersize=3D"16384"' to /boot/device.hints to enlarge the buffer from it's default 4096 bytes. You might be able to make X more responsive by renicing it with a negative 'nice' value. See renice(8). Trying another scheduler in the kernel might also make a difference. Roland --=20 R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards --pAwQNkOnpTn9IO2O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCTY4uEnfvsMMhpyURAn6qAKCEOM/+77x4F00Ry8MsGlFV4UC10gCeIm3L r2XZAN+mtv5v82LrKjSOsX0= =dX0c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pAwQNkOnpTn9IO2O--