Re: Strange system responsiveness issues with 5.1-CURRENT
Ulrich Spoerlein ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, 24.09.2003 at 01:23:07 +0200, Julian St. wrote: I've been experiencing (especially) the lag in audio and/or video when seeking within media files. I kicked out all the debugging stuff, but it didn't make a difference. Same here with audio lagging. But I would say it lags only a second or a half, but it is clearly noticeable, when seeking in mp3s or clicking stop. Perhaps some buffering issue? I'm experiencing the same on my 5.1-RELEASE with all debugging turned off and the 'ln -s aj' thingy to malloc. Pausing XMMS will continue to play music for about 1-2 seconds. Running bzip/tar/gzip/md5 (extracting big ports) will make XMMS stutter (XMMS is playing via NFS, so it's not 'slow' hardware, it's somewhere else). Funny thing is, I recently had to 'portupgrade -raf', and I swear XMMS was very responsive afterwards. But right now (without recompiling anything else) it's back to normal. I have had similar problems playing music for several months, if I moved the mouse (ps2) on the console, static would be added to the audio, some heavy disk activity could also trigger it, but that was very rare. At any rate, I decided my system had too much cruft on it, and did a rm -rf /usr/local, then re-built everything from scratch (the filesystem dated from late in 3-CURRENT). After the complete rebuild, the problem disappeared. It seems that I had a stale library or header somewhere that contributed to this. -- Eric Hodel - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://segment7.net All messages signed with fingerprint: FEC2 57F1 D465 EB15 5D6E 7C11 332A 551C 796C 9F04 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Strange system responsiveness issues with 5.1-CURRENT
Hello (World). I've recently moved from FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE to 5.1-CURRENT (from September 21) and noticed some strange changes in my system responsiveness (using identical kernel configs). Some applications, like games/fuhquake, Quake3 and SETI seem to run faster (I get better FPS in games and my SETI WU crunching time has slightly decreased). However, in many cases, the results have been less then good: Starting applications (XFree, Evolution, Mozilla, OpenOffice, games) takes a noticably longer time than it used to, I'd say that Mozilla Firebird load times have increased by about 30-40%. I can also now see jerkiness in switching between applications. When Alt-Tabbing between Firebird, OpenOffice and Evolution, the windows appear half-drawn for a second or two. When I play music (MP3 and/or OGG) in XMMS and try to drag the position indicator forward/backward to go to that specific part of the track, it now takes 2-3 seconds until it actually switches to that part of the track and starts playing it, even though with 5.1-RELEASE that was happening instantly. Am I doing something wrong or is this to be expected ? Unfortunately I have no webspace to post my dmesg and kernel config on, but if any of you people want them, I can send them attached to a private mail. Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange system responsiveness issues with 5.1-CURRENT
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:43:25PM +0300, Dan Naumov wrote: Starting applications (XFree, Evolution, Mozilla, OpenOffice, games) takes a noticably longer time than it used to, I'd say that Mozilla Firebird load times have increased by about 30-40%. I can also now see jerkiness in switching between applications. When Alt-Tabbing between Firebird, OpenOffice and Evolution, the windows appear half-drawn for a second or two. The debugging features mentioned in the first entry in /usr/src/UPDATING were disabled in RELEASE, but not in CURRENT. This might account for these differences. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form X is the one, true Y is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Strange system responsiveness issues with 5.1-CURRENT
On 2003-09-23 09:58 -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:43:25PM +0300, Dan Naumov wrote: Starting applications (XFree, Evolution, Mozilla, OpenOffice, games) takes a noticably longer time than it used to, I'd say that Mozilla Firebird load times have increased by about 30-40%. I can also now see jerkiness in switching between applications. When Alt-Tabbing between Firebird, OpenOffice and Evolution, the windows appear half-drawn for a second or two. The debugging features mentioned in the first entry in /usr/src/UPDATING were disabled in RELEASE, but not in CURRENT. This might account for these differences. I've been experiencing (especially) the lag in audio and/or video when seeking within media files. I kicked out all the debugging stuff, but it didn't make a difference. -- Munish Chopra ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Static in sound playback (Re: Strange system responsiveness issues with 5.1-CURRENT)
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 01:09:19PM -0400, Munish Chopra wrote: On 2003-09-23 09:58 -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:43:25PM +0300, Dan Naumov wrote: Starting applications (XFree, Evolution, Mozilla, OpenOffice, games) takes a noticably longer time than it used to, I'd say that Mozilla Firebird load times have increased by about 30-40%. I can also now see jerkiness in switching between applications. When Alt-Tabbing between Firebird, OpenOffice and Evolution, the windows appear half-drawn for a second or two. The debugging features mentioned in the first entry in /usr/src/UPDATING were disabled in RELEASE, but not in CURRENT. This might account for these differences. I've been experiencing (especially) the lag in audio and/or video when seeking within media files. I kicked out all the debugging stuff, but it didn't make a difference. I think something regressed in the sound drivers over the past few weeks. I now get loud bursts of static when seeking on video files with mplayer. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Strange system responsiveness issues with 5.1-CURRENT
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:09:19 -0400 Munish Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2003-09-23 09:58 -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:43:25PM +0300, Dan Naumov wrote: Starting applications (XFree, Evolution, Mozilla, OpenOffice, games) takes a noticably longer time than it used to, I'd say that Mozilla Firebird load times have increased by about 30-40%. I can also now seejerkiness in switching between applications. When Alt-Tabbing between Firebird, OpenOffice and Evolution, the windows appear half-drawn for a second or two. The debugging features mentioned in the first entry in /usr/src/UPDATING were disabled in RELEASE, but not in CURRENT. This might account for these differences. I've been experiencing (especially) the lag in audio and/or video when seeking within media files. I kicked out all the debugging stuff, but it didn't make a difference. Same here with audio lagging. But I would say it lags only a second or a half, but it is clearly noticeable, when seeking in mp3s or clicking stop. Perhaps some buffering issue? cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devices: pcm0: Creative EMU10K1 at io 0xe000 irq 5 (4p/2r/0v channels duplex default) uname -a FreeBSD jmmr.no-ip.com 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #11: Tue Sep 16 13:29:11 CEST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BSD5ROUTER i386 sysctl hw.snd hw.snd.targetirqrate: 32 hw.snd.report_soft_formats: 1 hw.snd.verbose: 1 hw.snd.unit: 0 hw.snd.maxautovchans: 8 hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize: 4096 hw.snd.pcm0.vchans: 0 -- The c in rap is silent. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
