Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:02:27 -0400 From: quadrant <quadrant@apex.homedns.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: performance tuning? Message-ID: <200306301459.45333.quadrant@apex.homedns.org>
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Hi all. I have a question about the speed at which my applications are running. I have a dual boot Win98 and FreeBSD 4.8-stable (separate hard drives). In winblows, my multimedia is great - no hesitations, smooth audio and video, etc. But in FreeBSD, any application I run seems to go MUCH slower. MP3 audio is slow, and slows even more if I even only move my mouse. Video is a waste of time, playing perhaps 1/2 the speed that it does in winblows. I have: Cyrix pentium II (300 MHz) 128 MB RAM Radeon 7000 (32MB) video card. Even if I configure KDE to "run soundserver with realtime priority," this does absolutely nothing. I don't believe X is slowing it down (too much), because even in console mode, mpg123 plays mp3 audio just as slow as when I'm using X. Even when I kill -9 all background daemons (i.e. httpd, smtp, pop3, ssh, telnet...) it still goes this slow. How can I go about performance tuning my apps? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Eric
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