Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 02:50:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Naumov <jago@telefragged.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/37482: Weird behaviour under relatively slow load, skipping audio and choppy video playback. Message-ID: <200204290950.g3T9ocm16616@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR i386/37482; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dan Naumov <jago@telefragged.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: i386/37482: Weird behaviour under relatively slow load, skipping audio and choppy video playback. Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 03:50:03 -0700 (PDT) >Number: 37482 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: Weird behaviour under relatively slow load, skipping audio and choppy video playback. >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Apr 26 04:00:08 PDT 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Dan Naumov >Release: 4.5-STABLE >Organization: none, home user >Environment: FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Fri Apr 26 04:09:01 EEST 2002 root@localhost.localdomain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JAGO i386 >Description: I have only recently switched to FreeBSD from Linux and went to test audio and video perfomance awas slightly dissapointed. I am usually running SETI (/usr/ports/astro/setiathome/ or http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/) which puts the CPU to do some heavy calculations in the background, this takes my load to 1.00 average (which is similar to Linux) and the overall responce speed of the system is OK. However, if I have SETI running in the background, video playback in MPlayer (/usr/ports/graphics/mplayer) becomes very choppy and playing ZSNES (/usr/ports/emulators/zsnes) is near-impossible due to the sound skipping a terrible lot. I used to do these same things in Linux under the same load on the same hardware without the audio/video playback issues. I was wondering whether the issue lies in FreeBSD itself or somewhere else. Here is the output of dmesg -a: ======================================================= Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Fri Apr 26 04:09:01 EEST 2002 root@localhost.localdomain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JAGO Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1424830243 Hz CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) processor (1424.83-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x644 Stepping = 4 Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR> AMD Features=0xc0440000<<b18>,AMIE,DSP,3DNow!> real memory = 536805376 (524224K bytes) avail memory = 518746112 (506588K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0382000. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled md0: Malloc disk Using $PIR table, 10 entries at 0xc00fddb0 npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: <AMD-761 host to PCI bridge> on motherboard pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0 pcib1: <AMD-761 PCI-PCI (4x AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1 pci1: <NVidia GeForce DDR graphics accelerator> at 5.0 irq 10 isab0: <VIA 82C686 PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 atapci0: <VIA 82C686 ATA100 controller> port 0xc400-0xc40f at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> at 7.2 irq 5 pci0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> at 7.3 irq 5 pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x1106, dev=0x3057) at 7.4 rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xdc001000-0xdc0010ff irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0 rl0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:7d:9f:be:31 miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0 rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto pcm0: <Creative CT5880-C> port 0xe400-0xe43f irq 11 at device 14.0 on pci0 orm0: <Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc97ff on isa0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3 vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A ad0: 38182MB <MAXTOR 4K040H2> [77578/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 ad1: 16446MB <ST317221A> [33416/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA66 acd0: CDROM <CD-ROM 52X/AKH> at ata1-master PIO4 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a swapon: adding /dev/ad0s1b as swap device Automatic boot in progress... /dev/ad0s1a: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS /dev/ad0s1a: clean, 237044 free (756 frags, 29536 blocks, 0.3% fragmentation) /dev/ad0s1e: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS /dev/ad0s1e: clean, 12958791 free (143 frags, 1619831 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation) /dev/ad1s1c: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS /dev/ad1s1c: clean, 1959209 free (1017 frags, 244774 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation) /dev/ad0s1f: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS /dev/ad0s1f: clean, 258028 free (20 frags, 32251 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation) /dev/ad0s1h: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS /dev/ad0s1h: clean, 2371494 free (11014 frags, 295060 blocks, 0.4% fragmentation) /dev/ad0s1g: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS /dev/ad0s1g: clean, 253233 free (41 frags, 31649 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation) Doing initial network setup: hostname >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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