Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:37:55 -0400 (EDT) From: george+freebsd@m5p.com To: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Degraded X Performance in 7.0 Message-ID: <200807201437.m6KEbtGs001134@m5p.com> In-Reply-To: <47d0403c0807181628k509375f1x28897353e9f3647a@mail.gmail.com>
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On: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:28:19 -0400 "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 1:49 PM, <george+freebsd@m5p.com> 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
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