Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:55:25 -0400 From: FreeBSD <freebsd@optiksecurite.com> To: george+freebsd@m5p.com Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Degraded X performance in 7.0 Message-ID: <4880D90D.8060005@optiksecurite.com> In-Reply-To: <200807181749.m6IHn5VH067802@m5p.com> References: <200807181749.m6IHn5VH067802@m5p.com>
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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
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