From owner-freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 22 10:22:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7450E16A4DF; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:22:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from itetcu@FreeBSD.org) Received: from liby.buh.tecnik93.com (worf.tecnik93.com [83.166.209.149]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D59043D5A; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:22:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@FreeBSD.org) Received: from liby.buh.tecnik93.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by liby.buh.tecnik93.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7MAMqVM000968; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:22:54 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from itetcu@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:22:50 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Remko Lodder Message-ID: <20060822132250.1428a836@liby.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <200608221001.k7MA11YK052512@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200608221001.k7MA11YK052512@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org, remko@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/99485: Disk IO Causes mplayer To Drop Frames X-BeenThere: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: I386-specific issues for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:22:56 -0000 On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:01:01 GMT Remko Lodder wrote: > Synopsis: Disk IO Causes mplayer To Drop Frames > > Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-i386->freebsd-ports-bugs > Responsible-Changed-By: remko > Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Aug 22 09:59:51 UTC 2006 > Responsible-Changed-Why: > Reassign this to the Ports team first; you will most likely recieve > more feedback there then on the i386 PR queue. Please port > maintainers can you look (and perhaps report on this PR) whether you > have the same problems or know people who have these problems as well? It cpould be the long standing problem we have wrt. disk access. It depends greatly on the chipset / HDD / channel / ... combination used. I saw this with VIA and NForce4 chipsets. My KDE freezes when copying files between ad6 and ad10 (both SATA) and not when copying between any of them the the IDE disks. The standard answer to this in the past has been "it's crappy hardware"; of course, it's seems 90+ of (end-user) hardware out there is included in this category; and it works OK with other OSes. :-/ I have two suggestion that might help: increase the HZ for your kernel and / or your rtc port (if you use it) and use the ULE scheduler. I'd be curious to know if copying the file via rtprio 31 ... helps. -- IOnut