From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 20 14:37:57 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 685B01065671 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:37:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from george@m5p.com) Received: from mailhost.m5p.com (unknown [IPv6:2001:418:3fd::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 393D28FC0C for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:37:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from george@m5p.com) Received: from m5p.com (parkstreet.m5p.com [IPv6:2001:418:3fd::1]) by mailhost.m5p.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6KEboGc097338 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:37:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from george@localhost) by m5p.com (8.14.2/8.13.7/Submit) id m6KEbtGs001134; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:37:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:37:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200807201437.m6KEbtGs001134@m5p.com> From: george+freebsd@m5p.com To: multimedia@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <47d0403c0807181628k509375f1x28897353e9f3647a@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.729 () AWL,BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on IPv6:2001:418:3fd::f7 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (mailhost.m5p.com [IPv6:2001:418:3fd::f7]); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:37:56 -0400 (EDT) Cc: 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: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:37:57 -0000 On: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:28:19 -0400 "Ben Kaduk" wrote: > > 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 > Here's the info: http://www.m5p.com/~george/freebsd/ and thanks for your attention! -- George Mitchell