From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 18 10:09:55 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 ABF8916A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:09:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp13.wxs.nl (smtp13.wxs.nl [195.121.6.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D28543D2F for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:09:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from ronald.echteman.nl (ip51cdc5d2.speed.planet.nl [81.205.197.210]) by smtp13.wxs.nlSMTP id <0I7D00DNODKI9F@smtp13.wxs.nl> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:09:54 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 23939 invoked from network); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:09:53 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.thuis.klop.ws) (192.168.1.4) by ronald.echteman.nl with SMTP; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:09:53 +0000 Received: (qmail 39206 invoked from network); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:09:52 +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 10:09:52 +0000 Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:09:45 +0100 From: Ronald Klop In-reply-to: <1100768703.5186.4.camel@localhost> To: Suleiman Souhlal 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> <1100768703.5186.4.camel@localhost> cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance issues in 5.3-RELEASE. (snd_emu10k1) 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 10:09:55 -0000 On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 04:05:04 -0500, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 03:46, Ronald Klop wrote: >> 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. > > None of the sound drivers are actually MPSAFE.. The reason people that > use snd_emu10k1 are more affected by this is because it has a smaller > default buffer size (4096) than the other drivers. > I'm not at home now so I can't check, but I remember that the snd_emu10k1 doesn't say [GIANT-LOCKED] in dmesg, while all my other soundcards do. Ronald. -- Ronald Klop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands