Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 18:48:33 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: shopping for a new video card Message-ID: <199803150048.SAA06795@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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Am thinking its time to upgrade my 2M Mach32 PCI video card for something with a bit better performance. System is a PPro-200/512k with 64M FP parity RAM. The CTM is on a 2G Barracuda via Adaptec 2940, the CVS directory being written to is on a 9G IBM via Asus SC875 and mounted async. Here's a snapshot of top while extracting the cvs-cur CTM in an xterm. 27% of the CPU to scroll an xterm seems a bit much. last pid: 6669; load averages: 2.13, 1.90, 1.71 18:38:22 52 processes: 5 running, 47 sleeping CPU states: 52.5% user, 36.6% nice, 10.5% system, 0.4% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 26M Active, 700K Inact, 17M Wired, 17M Cache, 7636K Buf, 536K Free Swap: 192M Total, 6356K Used, 186M Free, 3% Inuse PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 12390 dkelly 105 19 744K 220K RUN 309.1H 29.41% 29.41% rc564 6489 dkelly 72 0 2716K 4172K RUN 2:11 27.54% 27.54% XF86_Mach32 6647 dkelly 64 0 268K 524K RUN 4:02 25.29% 25.29% ctm 6663 dkelly -6 0 620K 216K pipdwt 0:17 8.93% 8.93% gunzip 6499 dkelly 2 0 488K 1452K select 0:01 4.12% 4.12% xterm 6510 dkelly 2 0 4724K 5828K select 0:08 1.18% 1.18% wish8.0 6500 dkelly 29 0 544K 1500K RUN 0:03 0.84% 0.84% xterm 6650 dkelly 28 0 636K 816K RUN 0:00 0.00% 0.00% top Matrox is advertising heavily. Have heard good things about value and performance of Virge chipsets but have observed there are so many flavors of Virge its hard to tell them apart. Any suggestions? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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