From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 13 13:20:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD3116A434 for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 13:20:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from flag@newluxor.wired.org) Received: from mail.oltrelinux.com (krisma.oltrelinux.com [194.242.226.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A49F43D49 for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 13:20:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flag@newluxor.wired.org) Received: from newluxor.wired.org (ip-89-202.sn2.eutelia.it [83.211.89.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.oltrelinux.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B01C311AE56; Sat, 13 May 2006 15:20:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from newluxor.wired.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by newluxor.wired.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4DDJsfb001236; Sat, 13 May 2006 15:19:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from flag@newluxor.wired.org) Received: (from flag@localhost) by newluxor.wired.org (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k4DDJsah001235; Sat, 13 May 2006 15:19:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from flag) Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 15:19:54 +0200 From: Paolo Pisati To: Ivan Voras Message-ID: <20060513131954.GA1208@tin.it> References: <20060512205914.GA3739@tin.it> <4465CBA6.4010000@fer.hr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4465CBA6.4010000@fer.hr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at krisma.oltrelinux.com Cc: FreeBSD_Hackers Subject: Re: qemu is unusable on my smp box X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 13:20:16 -0000 On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 02:05:58PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > Paolo Pisati wrote: > > >all these problems occur on a dualcore pentiumd 920 (2.8Ghz), > >2gb ram, intel 945g (X in vesa mode- agp doesn't attach) > >(see dmesg attached), while the exact same freesbie images runs > >fine on a 6.1 centrino@1.6ghz 512mb ram and intel 915g (X with i810 > >and dri). > > I don't know for sure, but for me something similar (i.e. extremely low > performance) happens with every SDL application (and qemu uses SDL) when > X.Org doesn't use DRI. No matter how fast the machine is, I can trace > window redrawing line by line with my eyes. vesa slows down any graphic operation, but still i don't understand why qemu it's so slow syncing the disks in the guest os, or why it goes directly to mintor and hangs there so many times when i start it... there's definitely something else wrong beside X... -- Paolo "le influenze esterne sono troppe, il mondo reale non e' mica quello fatato dei komunisti :-p" - Anonymous Lumbard