Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 10:15:03 -0800 From: Craig Burgess <craig-burgess@home.net> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Of mice, XFree86, & Netscape Message-ID: <3A005DA7.1CA6CE4@home.net> References: <39F21E9D.BB4968FC@home.net> <14834.64948.277239.994151@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <39F3232A.C73A4F35@home.net> <14835.37567.988247.30293@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Craig Burgess writes: [snipped] > > The whole and complete point to the exercise was to see if the 500 MHz > > Alpha could handle an inbound webcam stream better than a 300MHz > > Celeron and so far the answer is "nope." (At 300MHz the PC easily > > became CPU-bound but overclocking the celery to 450+ allows decent > > webcam framerate without choking. On the Alpha one live webcam video > > at 12fps drew 97% processor time said TOP.) > > Probably a lot of it is going to dealing with XF86, which due to a > sub-optimal compiler, sucks pretty badly. > > Sigh. Exploring for the Alpha with FreeBSD suggests that there is no alternative. I'd love to be wrong. craig To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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