Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:09:09 +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: <20050825160909.GB10134@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <430D3823.9070301@mkproductions.org> References: <430D3823.9070301@mkproductions.org>
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--qcHopEYAB45HaUaB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:16:51PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: >=20 > The issue I'm having is that every minute or two, I will hear some=20 > stuttering in any audio/video playback (will see the video freeze if=20 > video), and my mouse will freeze for a few seconds as well while this=20 > happens. It seems to happen more frequently if I have something doing=20 > disk I/O, such as downloads running, untarring files, or torrents. Right= =20 > now, I have the following applications open: My amd64 machine does not have this problem. I'm running 5.4-STABLE: FreeBSD slackbox.xs4all.nl 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Wed Aug 10 20:25:45 CEST 2005 rsmith@slackbox.xs4all.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RFS amd64 One thing I did do was enlarge the soundcard's DMA buffer in /boot/device.hints: # Larger DMA buffer for the soundcard, for better sound quality. hint.pcm.0.buffersize=3D"16384" Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --qcHopEYAB45HaUaB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDDe0lEnfvsMMhpyURAszGAJ4z23fO2UUwasP28YdI8xrWo8JZXwCeMCHm IiYCL6NB8LTidQ0qpM8Hjd8= =lAxk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qcHopEYAB45HaUaB--
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