Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 20:08:46 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound stutters and mouse slows way down Message-ID: <20050401180846.GC84746@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200504011149.15718.josh@tcbug.org> References: <200504011149.15718.josh@tcbug.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:49:15AM -0600, Josh Paetzel wrote: > I am using a Gigabyte server/workstation board for my desktop. It is > a dual socket A board. I have 2x 2400MP athlons in it along with 768 > megs of RAM. My load averages tend to be around 1.00 -> 3.00 with > CPU utilization 30-40% idle. > > My problem is that cvs, bzip2/bunzip2, and tar bring my system to it's > knees. Sound stutters badly even though I have set XMMS to use 5 > megs of buffering. The mouse slows way down and gets jerky as well. > > I am running 5.3-RELEASE-p6. You might be able to fix sound by enlarging the sound subsystem's DMA buffer. Add 'hint.pcm.0.buffersize="16384"' to /boot/device.hints to enlarge the buffer from it's default 4096 bytes. You might be able to make X more responsive by renicing it with a negative 'nice' value. See renice(8). Trying another scheduler in the kernel might also make a difference. Roland -- R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCTY4uEnfvsMMhpyURAn6qAKCEOM/+77x4F00Ry8MsGlFV4UC10gCeIm3L r2XZAN+mtv5v82LrKjSOsX0= =dX0c -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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