Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:06:24 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Ryan Freeman <ryan@slipgate.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sound performance problems in FreeBSD Message-ID: <200409271306.25050.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040926124746.GA14197@slipgate.org> References: <20040926025317.GA5812@slipgate.org> <200409262212.26882.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20040926124746.GA14197@slipgate.org>
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--nextPart9967126.PP1QSXjj33 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 22:17, Ryan Freeman wrote: > > Does a purely CPU bound process cause the problem? > > ie try something like.. > > dd if=3D/dev/zero | md5 > > well i gave that command a shot (i closed gkrellm first to reduce any > clicking that may happen from it running) then started an mp3 with mpg123 > alongside running that command. didn't skip a beat, so i guess its all > related to sysctl... More likely there is lots of stuff running under Giant whe you run the sysc= tl,=20 and the sound subsystem still runs under Giant (I think) so you get=20 congestion.. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart9967126.PP1QSXjj33 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBV4q55ZPcIHs/zowRAqjQAKCaHbg9c/9dpwhqZQqv1N7CCMcdewCdHBKO cn0eqt4T21PhN7LfMghB9Y0= =0Ini -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart9967126.PP1QSXjj33--
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