From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 18 18:29:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B5421065674 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:29:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@optiksecurite.com) Received: from tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts14.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF5458FC12 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:29:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@optiksecurite.com) Received: from toip39-bus.srvr.bell.ca ([67.69.240.40]) by tomts44-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20080718175707.XIUP1584.tomts44-srv.bellnexxia.net@toip39-bus.srvr.bell.ca>; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:57:07 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAPdvgEhKD7BS/2dsb2JhbACvLw Received: from mtrlpq02-1242542162.sdsl.bell.ca (HELO [69.69.69.183]) ([74.15.176.82]) by toip39-bus.srvr.bell.ca with ESMTP; 18 Jul 2008 13:56:47 -0400 Message-ID: <4880D90D.8060005@optiksecurite.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:55:25 -0400 From: FreeBSD User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: george+freebsd@m5p.com References: <200807181749.m6IHn5VH067802@m5p.com> In-Reply-To: <200807181749.m6IHn5VH067802@m5p.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Degraded X performance in 7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:29:52 -0000 george+freebsd@m5p.com a écrit : > Between FreeBSD 6.2 and FreeBSD 7.0, something has happened with > performance. Using a generic 6.2 kernel and the X server which > shipped with it, and mplayer built with the defaults from ports, > I would play a movie from an NFS-mounted disk, with mplayer using > roughly 30% of the CPU time and xorg less than 5%. On the very same > hardware upgraded to a generic 7.0 kernel and the X server which > shipped with it, and mplayer built with the defaults from ports, > playing the same movie from the same NFS-mounted disk, mplayer > still takes roughly 30% of the CPU, but xorg is taking 35-40% of > the CPU! The quality of the playback is noticeably rough. What > should I be looking for? The diff between an old Xorg.0.log and > a new one is pretty massive. I have an ATI Technologies Inc Rage > XL AGP 2X rev 39, Mem @ 0xce000000/24, 0xcfeff000/12, I/O @ 0x8800/8, > BIOS @ 0xcfec0000/17 according to the log. > > Thanks for any assistance you can give me! -- George Mitchell > I noticed the same behaviour but with the movie on the local hard drive on FreeBSD 7.0 GENERIC kernel with X.org, Fluxbox and mplayer from ports. I didn't tested with 6.2. The PC is a Dell Optiplex 755 with an Intel Celeron 2.8GHz and 1Go RAM I would be interested in some clue too, Thank you, Martin