From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 1 10:12:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C800737B4E5 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 10:12:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.net ([24.0.178.21]) by femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001101181218.NAFH14736.femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.net>; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 10:12:18 -0800 Message-ID: <3A005DA7.1CA6CE4@home.net> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 10:15:03 -0800 From: Craig Burgess X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Of mice, XFree86, & Netscape 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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