If I could get logs from the mplayers would that help? I tried but it didn't work so I skipped it. I don't know how to profile on Linux. The machine has 4 gigs of RAM.
On 12/14/15, Michael McConville <mm...@mykolab.com> wrote: > Alan Corey wrote: >> I'm thinking this is graphics slowness or filesystem slowness. Both >> OpenBSD and Debian both have working mplayers, I don't know if that >> could log something useful about throughput. > > Filesystems slowness seems unlikely to me. I'd guess that it's because > of the rendering acceleration. Maybe we don't support what Linux uses in > that case, or there's an ifdef somewhere that gives us a sluggish > fallback. > > It could also be because of a pathological memory allocation pattern. > They have a much bigger performance impact on OpenBSD because of the > memory sanitization. > > The list goes on. You really can't know without profiling. > > That said, remember that things like this are almost always a little > faster on Linux. > -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX
