From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 30 14:46:10 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 D197537B401 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:46:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from babyruth.hotpop.com (babyruth.hotpop.com [204.57.55.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FB2F43FD7 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:46:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com) Received: from hotpop.com (kubrick.hotpop.com [204.57.55.16]) by babyruth.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id AEA7721094D for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:45:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fortytwo. (ip68-109-49-234.lu.dl.cox.net [68.109.49.234]) by smtp-3.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 8594A44147A; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:44:30 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 17:43:46 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox To: quadrant@apex.homedns.org Message-Id: <20030701174346.241454fe.kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> In-Reply-To: <200306301459.45333.quadrant@apex.homedns.org> References: <200306301459.45333.quadrant@apex.homedns.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-HotPOP: ----------------------------------------------- Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com ----------------------------------------------- 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 21:46:11 -0000 Here are a few thing that should help. 1: get ride of KDE... try fluxbox... KDE makes a horrid wm as it eats a lot of resources 2: start optimizing stuff... 2.1: copy /etc/defualts/make.conf to /etc/make.conf and set that optimize stuff 2.2: make a optimized kernel 2.3: do a buildworld 2.4: recompile X 2.5: recompile gtk, gtk+, and etc 2.6: recompile any thing else that you use a lot and what ever depenecies they use 2.7: above all get ride of KDE On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:02:27 -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 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"