From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 18 08:46:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C61A016A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:46:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp17.wxs.nl (smtp17.wxs.nl [195.121.6.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BA5543D1F for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:46:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from ronald.echteman.nl (ip51cdc5d2.speed.planet.nl [81.205.197.210])2004))freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:46:22 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 22957 invoked from network); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:46:22 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.thuis.klop.ws) (192.168.1.4) by ronald.echteman.nl with SMTP; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:46:21 +0000 Received: (qmail 20094 invoked from network); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:46:19 +0000 Received: from localhost.thuis.klop.ws (HELO smtp.local) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.thuis.klop.ws with SMTP; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:46:19 +0000 Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:46:16 +0100 From: Ronald Klop In-reply-to: <20041117094022.GA8682@uci.agh.edu.pl> To: Krzysztof Kowalik Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Opera M2/7.54 (FreeBSD, build 751) References: <20041117094022.GA8682@uci.agh.edu.pl> cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance issues in 5.3-RELEASE. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:46:41 -0000 On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:40:23 +0100, Krzysztof Kowalik wrote: > Hello, > > Recently I took some time to upgrade my home 4.9 system to > 5.3-RELEASE (fortunately, taking full system dump before, so I can > easily get back). In fact just after upgrading I ran into the weird > issue during installation for firefox port. > > When firefox-1.0-source.tar.bz2 is getting untared, the system starts to > be *slow*: any music starts to be jittered and the cursor in X stalls > from time to time for ~1 second. For what I have seen everybody uses snd_emu10k1. Since I use my onboard soundcard (snd_ess* (not MPSAFE)) I have less problems with my sound under disk load. Bit is just experience. I don't know about code internals. Oh, I saw a post a while ago on stable@ or on current@ about a buffer in emu10k1. If it was increased it had less problems. Don't have the time to look up the post, sorry. Ronald. -- Ronald Klop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands