From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 30 12:29:07 2003 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 3179937B401 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:29:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 715B443F85 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:29:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from quadrant@apex.homedns.org) Received: from syr-24-24-5-100.twcny.rr.com (syr-24-24-5-100.twcny.rr.com [24.24.5.100])h5UJT2iY011208 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:29:03 -0400 (EDT) From: quadrant To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:02:27 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306301459.45333.quadrant@apex.homedns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: performance tuning? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: quadrant@apex.homedns.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 19:29:07 -0000 Hi all. I have a question about the speed at which my applications are running. I have a dual boot Win98 and FreeBSD 4.8-stable (separate hard drives). In winblows, my multimedia is great - no hesitations, smooth audio and video, etc. But in FreeBSD, any application I run seems to go MUCH slower. MP3 audio is slow, and slows even more if I even only move my mouse. Video is a waste of time, playing perhaps 1/2 the speed that it does in winblows. I have: Cyrix pentium II (300 MHz) 128 MB RAM Radeon 7000 (32MB) video card. Even if I configure KDE to "run soundserver with realtime priority," this does absolutely nothing. I don't believe X is slowing it down (too much), because even in console mode, mpg123 plays mp3 audio just as slow as when I'm using X. Even when I kill -9 all background daemons (i.e. httpd, smtp, pop3, ssh, telnet...) it still goes this slow. How can I go about performance tuning my apps? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Eric