From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 28 19:49:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A75B37B8B9 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 19:49:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dolgan2k@home.com) Received: from c169507b ([24.11.173.44]) by mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20000629024915.LNWY18210.mail.rdc1.wa.home.com@c169507b>; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 19:49:15 -0700 Message-ID: <014601bfe174$9e517e20$2cad0b18@c169507b> Reply-To: "Dolgan" From: "Dolgan" To: "Sean O'Connell" Cc: References: <013201bfe172$5e545650$2cad0b18@c169507b> <20000628224734.B348@stat.Duke.EDU> Subject: Re: Gnome compliance and speed? Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 19:49:16 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Unfortunately, I did that. It seemed to have no effect. :( KDE is fine, but I *hate hate* KDE. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean O'Connell" To: "Dolgan" Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 7:47 PM Subject: Re: Gnome compliance and speed? > Dolgan stated: > : I didn't "upgrade." > : > : I had RELEASE, then I did a clean installation just to avoid the trouble. > : See it was about an hour after I got done installing FBSD for the first time > : so it didn't matter. > : > : I installed clean from a 6-27-2000 snapshot. That was yesterday. Wouldn't > : that make the ports updated, or not..? > : > : Why would it be a ports thing, though? It's Gnome 1.2.1... latest. Is there > : something weird with ports? > : Latest sawfish too. > > Dolgan- > > Did you tweak the SYSV shared memory parameters in your kernel? If > you are making heavy use of imlib, you need to do this. There was a > fairly long thread on either -stable or -current (I forget) detailing > various folks tweakings of their SYSV share memory setting in the > kernel. > > Look at LINT ... the options in question are > > options SHMALL=1025 > options SHMMAX="(SHMMAXPGS*PAGE_SIZE+1)" > options SHMMAXPGS=1025 > options SHMMIN=2 > options SHMMNI=33 > options SHMSEG=9 > > Some of these need to included in your kernel and larger. Take a > gander at either > > http://www.freebsd.org/mail/current/freebsd-stable.html > > or > > http://www.freebsd.org/mail/current/freebsd-current.html > > And look aroung for sawfish/gnome/ipcs/sysv shared memory > > When your perfomance goes into the toilet look at > > ipcs -mob > > Hope this helps, > S > > > 1--------01---------01--------01--------01--------01--------01--------0 > Sean O'Connell sean@stat.Duke.EDU To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message