On 26/08/05, Mark Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roland Smith wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 04:44:59PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > >>Okay, I may try that later then. STABLE is just about done on that > >>Athlon XP 2000+ machine. > > > > > > Fingers crossed :-) > > Well Hmmm.... I've got -STABLE running on the 5.4-RELEASE i386 AMD > Athlon XP 2000+ machine with 256MB RAM. I untar Firefox sources, and the > improvement is noticeable within 3 seconds. When doing the same > operation before or here on my amd64 (5.4-RELEASE) it starts freezing > the screen, sound, and other things (Hard to describe the sound noise, > but it sounds like a "ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR-R-R-R-R-RRRR" stutter). > > I increased the XMMS buffer from 3000 to the value on your site (haven't > done the sysctl one yet) and it made the skips that were happening > during untarring reduce greatly. There are still a few skips and slight > stuttering, but before when doing the same operation it was completely > un-listenable and unresponsive. > > I'm even tarring the Firefox source back up with bzip2 now to try. It's > going quite slowly, but that's probably due to low RAM, as well as an > older, slower, UDMA66 hard drive. 608K of real mem free and using up > 50MB of swap, it's still sounding pretty good with minimal skips. > > I'm listening to a stream from my Athlon XP 2000+ in my left ear (via a > headphone) and the same stream on the speakers here from my amd64. I > hear occasional skips in the audio from the amd64 5.4-RELEASE box as I'm > just typing this email, but while the other -STABLE box is semi-idle (X, > Xfce, Firefox with 40 tabs open) I don't hear many skips at all. It's > not perfect, but a huge improvement. > > I'm wondering what changed in 5-STABLE to make this so much better. I > thought the fix was in 6 (Unless it was MFC)? > > This much improvement almost makes me want to just upgrade this amd64 > box to -STABLE and start using it now. I just want to be sure it's > stable enough for my use. > > Thanks again for all the input :). > > -Mark > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >
Try these in kernel OPTIONS DIRECTIO OPTIONS NO_ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES and commenting options ADAPTIVE_GIANT and disable apic. Tell me if that imporves or makes worse. Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"