From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 30 14:37:03 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 1297B37B4FA for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:37:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-104-32.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.104.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCD8F43FEA for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:37:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C35266CFA; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:36:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5487CB1F; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:36:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:36:56 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: quadrant Message-ID: <20030630213656.GC71798@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <200306301459.45333.quadrant@apex.homedns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zCKi3GIZzVBPywwA" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200306301459.45333.quadrant@apex.homedns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: performance tuning? 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: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:37:03 -0000 --zCKi3GIZzVBPywwA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 03:02:27PM -0400, quadrant wrote: > 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 m= uch), > 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.=20 > How can I go about performance tuning my apps? Any help would be > greatly appreciated! The first step towards tuning your system would be to stop using KDE. It's pretty slow and uses a lot of resources even on a fast machine. Kris --zCKi3GIZzVBPywwA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/AK14Wry0BWjoQKURAl7IAJ9siaXECtgku/8SpUUF1zAqMF8QTwCg9X0f S1vRruZr9JH1Mw1tgqyDPdI= =+64W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zCKi3GIZzVBPywwA--