Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:37:58 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE Message-ID: <20050825173758.GA10790@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <430DF015.5000203@mkproductions.org> References: <430D3823.9070301@mkproductions.org> <20050825160909.GB10134@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <430DF015.5000203@mkproductions.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:21:41AM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > >/boot/device.hints: > > > ># Larger DMA buffer for the soundcard, for better sound quality. > >hint.pcm.0.buffersize="16384" > > Hey Roland. Yeah, back when I was looking into amd64 vs i386 version and > had a thread going that you replied to, I checked out your website and > saw your FreeBSD settings. :) > > I tried that device.hints setting on my backup Athlon XP 2000+ machine > with just onboard sound and that seemed to make it worse. Maybe because > it was crummy onboard. This machine runs an Audigy 2 Platinum. > > If it was just the sound doing this and not the mouse and display > freezing as well as any video playing then I think it would be much > easier to troubleshoot and pinpoint. > > I could try -STABLE on that spare hard drive though. Another thing to look at might be the scheduler. I'm using SCHED_4BSD. > P.S. On an unrelated note, is there any "changelog" or anything for > -STABLE to see what changes have been made? Hmm. /usr/src/UPDATING is one source of information. If you want to look at the change history of individual files, check out the CVS web interface: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDDgH2EnfvsMMhpyURAq+7AJ4qqdF+g1i1gWOCRuiMsuXqYYG9/wCeL4kL TwRRGH1zmjJyYQCTSfhgHI0= =udkS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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