Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:36:56 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: quadrant <quadrant@apex.homedns.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: performance tuning? Message-ID: <20030630213656.GC71798@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200306301459.45333.quadrant@apex.homedns.org> References: <200306301459.45333.quadrant@apex.homedns.org>
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--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--
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