Hi all, I've got a question of performance that I was hoping some with more of a feel for these things could help with.
Previously, I had been using Mandrake 7.1 on my desktop machine, an Athlon 600. At first, I had performance problems with certain multimedia applications: if I was playing an mp3 with mpg123, there would often be a click when an X client popped up a new window. Playing mpeg video wasn't so good, either. I applied Andre Hedrick's IDE patch and recompiled my kernel with support for the AMD Viper, and things really improved. All of the kinds of problems I just described completely disappeared. I could even play 3 or 4 separate MPEG videos with plaympeg without noticing a performance hit. A few days ago, I installed potato, and things were again not so good. I applied the IDE patch and compiled a kernel, and things improved, but they're not as good as they were on Mandrake. I still get brief clicks in my audio, and trying to play 3 videos at a time, they all drop frames and the system response slows to a crawl. Strangely, plaympeg won't play in full screen mode any more, either. Using xawtv to watch TV on my bt878-based TV card isn't quite as good, either. My question: could the difference be the pentium optimizations in the Mandrake binaries? If so, what might be the key pieces of software that I should recompile to get similar performance? If not, any ideas what the difference might be? Any help is sincerely apprecaited. -- David Steinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]