Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:45:16 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> 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: <20050825134516.GA52695@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <430D3823.9070301@mkproductions.org> References: <430D3823.9070301@mkproductions.org>
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--ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q 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: > Hi everyone. Last night I finally worked out some issues with my AMD64=20 > machine and got it up and operational. It's an AMD64 3000+ with 1.5GB=20 > RAM, and five 7200RPM hard drives (total of 720 gigs) running FreeBSD=20 > 5.4-RELEASE (amd64). When doing testing and initial=20 > install/configuration of this machine (compiling apps and such) I didn't= =20 > notice this too much, but now that I'm actually using it this is=20 > starting to be noticeable. >=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: This is a known bug in FreeBSD. It is fixed in 6.0, and there is a patch for 5.4 (search on -current from Jeff Roberson), which will be committed at some point. Kris --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDDctsWry0BWjoQKURAqYVAKD49wPGwMdjVAW438GlIJqIbdtTaQCfVngu CkeaSf/qYH1Nia7ZDGa14OE= =a/0X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q--
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