From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 18 23:55:00 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6456E1065670 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:55:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from minimarmot@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 450968FC08 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:55:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from minimarmot@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so626558rvf.43 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:55:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=Z5vsnBT6I0fXXEQbg0gGBjDHOos28YmJnua870c4Pe4=; b=Isn0Q5hxkEyPazYTvM+tIMt63bPATAEP0OMTRJErMBKUPufuuISUlm1JQvzegLNlJw hHOLBoOjq/rYYVpWF5y5SOcw5Y9v8s2dbXfJCcFC+1u5CLgFQEwQEEXapTA+A9Xa9B2o LD6M4psn4FXVJLBuJalovcGhU0GJwfqP9Wnes= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=aevXd/LBgFXTrcuuodigYqnEmFqEkoHvbAjtLBzibkUnLqlZgJm+e9eqKpHgzKItSq DWC6RpcYOvH2s1M3Ny+4hvokJMyhHKvUXqHfM0oSWMN+Zj1vNb5AtoV44YOTPrU2aga5 ljcDLm5zv9xsOz8PLmZaf+oApdbaD5Q1k/7Vw= Received: by 10.141.88.3 with SMTP id q3mr391665rvl.94.1216423699998; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:28:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.225.1 with HTTP; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:28:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <47d0403c0807181628k509375f1x28897353e9f3647a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:28:19 -0400 From: "Ben Kaduk" To: george+freebsd@m5p.com In-Reply-To: <200807181749.m6IHn5VH067802@m5p.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200807181749.m6IHn5VH067802@m5p.com> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Degraded X performance in 7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:55:00 -0000 On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 1:49 PM, wrote: > Between FreeBSD 6.2 and FreeBSD 7.0, something has happened with > performance. Using a generic 6.2 kernel and the X server which > shipped with it, and mplayer built with the defaults from ports, > I would play a movie from an NFS-mounted disk, with mplayer using > roughly 30% of the CPU time and xorg less than 5%. On the very same > hardware upgraded to a generic 7.0 kernel and the X server which > shipped with it, and mplayer built with the defaults from ports, > playing the same movie from the same NFS-mounted disk, mplayer > still takes roughly 30% of the CPU, but xorg is taking 35-40% of > the CPU! The quality of the playback is noticeably rough. What > should I be looking for? The diff between an old Xorg.0.log and > a new one is pretty massive. I have an ATI Technologies Inc Rage > XL AGP 2X rev 39, Mem @ 0xce000000/24, 0xcfeff000/12, I/O @ 0x8800/8, > BIOS @ 0xcfec0000/17 according to the log. > It sounds like your graphics card isn't doing as much work as it should. Could you post the results of dmesg and your Xorg.0.log somewhere accessible? It would be best if versions before and after the upgrade were available. -Ben Kaduk