Re: keyboard latency from time to time

2012-05-10 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, April 09, 2012 a las 07:06:59PM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: > Months later, in some other issue, I learned about the feature of KDE > "slow keys" and what I have described is exactly the same behaviour and > I can now even reproduce this with just pressing and holding down the >

Re: keyboard latency from time to time

2012-04-09 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, July 25, 2011 a las 05:10:47PM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: > > Hello, > > I run a 9-CURRENT from end of October on an Acer D250 laptop; which in > general runs very fine; from time to time (say once a month) I encounter > the following situation within KDE3 or X11: > > from a

keyboard latency from time to time

2011-07-25 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I run a 9-CURRENT from end of October on an Acer D250 laptop; which in general runs very fine; from time to time (say once a month) I encounter the following situation within KDE3 or X11: from a moment to another (can't say what action triggers this) the keyboard stops working; there are

Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell! (fwd)

2010-06-21 Thread Ian Smith
Hi .. as suggested, posting this discussion to ipfw@ too .. thanks, Ian -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:00:14 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo To: Ian Smith Subject: Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell! (fwd) On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Ian Smith

Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell!

2010-06-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > > I've read about people trying > > to throttle outgoing ACKs to slow down their download but that still > > wouldn't rearrange any incoming data packets so I don't see how that > > would help. I haven't tried it myself though but neit

Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell!

2010-06-21 Thread Morgan Wesström
ng as a router between me and the Internet. > > > Whenever someone on the local network downloads something, the other > > > connections have a really high latency. A second or more. For people > > > who like to download large files and play online games, it's not

Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell!

2010-06-20 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, > I've read about people trying > to throttle outgoing ACKs to slow down their download but that still > wouldn't rearrange any incoming data packets so I don't see how that > would help. I haven't tried it myself though but neither have I read > about anyone successfully accomplishing th

Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell!

2010-06-20 Thread Ian Smith
the local network downloads something, the other > > connections have a really high latency. A second or more. For people > > who like to download large files and play online games, it's not good. > > > > I tried traffic shaping with PF, which works - almost: I tr

Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell!

2010-06-18 Thread RW
t; connections have a really high latency. A second or more. For people > > who like to download large files and play online games, it's not > > good. > Traffic shaping on your side when downloading unfortunately doesn't > help you. The data has already been transferred acr

Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell!

2010-06-18 Thread Morgan Wesström
On 2010-06-16 02:51, Modulok wrote: > Yo, > > I have a FreeBSD box acting as a router between me and the Internet. > Whenever someone on the local network downloads something, the other > connections have a really high latency. A second or more. For people > who like to downlo

Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell!

2010-06-15 Thread Modulok
Yo, I have a FreeBSD box acting as a router between me and the Internet. Whenever someone on the local network downloads something, the other connections have a really high latency. A second or more. For people who like to download large files and play online games, it's not good. I

Tune USB latency...is that the right word?

2009-09-26 Thread Modulok
Aside from hacking ulpt.c, is there any way to tune the USB latency? More... I have a USB printer, which works, but it takes about 2 minutes before FreeBSD 7.2 will send it ANY data...during that 2 minutes nothing is hapenning. It's not a printer warmup issue either, or a cable or anything

Re: FreeBSD on Mini-ITX has web page latency

2007-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don't top-post, please. bobmc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, it seems that the driver and the hardware works so there must be > a problem in the generic part of the software. There are plenty of tools > for networking analysis but I am not a networking adept. So I will > carefully repeat th

Re: FreeBSD on Mini-ITX has web page latency

2007-01-02 Thread bobmc
Well, it seems that the driver and the hardware works so there must be a problem in the generic part of the software. There are plenty of tools for networking analysis but I am not a networking adept. So I will carefully repeat the install. Thanks. -Bob- BTW, my other computer is a Biostar Ideq

Re: FreeBSD on Mini-ITX has web page latency

2007-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bob McIsaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Usability studies say that a person won't wait more than 4 seconds for a > web page download. FreeBSD using Konqueor or Lynx takes more than 10 > seconds. This is puzzling since ftp transfers at 400kbs, pings of > freebsd.org take 80ms, and top shows CPU

FreeBSD on Mini-ITX has web page latency

2006-12-30 Thread Bob McIsaac
Hi: Usability studies say that a person won't wait more than 4 seconds for a web page download. FreeBSD using Konqueor or Lynx takes more than 10 seconds. This is puzzling since ftp transfers at 400kbs, pings of freebsd.org take 80ms, and top shows CPU is 93% idle. This is for a EPIA-CN13

Re: Determining disk latency

2005-12-14 Thread Charles Swiger
On Dec 14, 2005, at 4:56 PM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Dec 14 14:17:49 esmtp postfix/qmgr[29605]: 7BEE97E997: from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=11246, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Dec 14 14:27:29 esmtp postfix/qmgr[29605]: 7BEE97E997: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=none, delay=592, status=deferred (deliver

Determining disk latency

2005-12-14 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
st to look for disk latency issues, how do I do this? esmtp# grep 7BEE97E997 /var/log/maillog Dec 14 14:17:38 esmtp postfix/smtpd[32427]: 7BEE97E997: client=mail186.e2ma.net[66.179.147.186] Dec 14 14:17:38 esmtp postfix/cleanup[33547]: 7BEE97E997: message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dec 14 14:

RE: increasing latency on idle box with ASUS P4B533VM board

2005-08-19 Thread Arjan van der Oest
Dimitry, vrijdag 19 augustus 2005 16:19, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: > Just a shot in the dark but is HT enabled in that P4? It's an older MB but as far as I can see in the BIOS and the specs on asus.com it doesn't support HT. Thanks, Arjan ___

Re: increasing latency on idle box with ASUS P4B533VM board

2005-08-19 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
a different NIC (3com, xl driver), new cabling, new > switchport and all gives me the same result. My other labbox (a AMD > 2000 XP+ with 3com PCI nic) connected to the same router is showing > normal latency. This gives me the feeling it's some sort of timing > issue on the P4'

increasing latency on idle box with ASUS P4B533VM board

2005-08-19 Thread Arjan van der Oest
with 3com PCI nic) connected to the same router is showing normal latency. This gives me the feeling it's some sort of timing issue on the P4's motherboard itself. Has anyone seen this before? I've searched the archives and found little on this topic. Any tips/hints where I ca

increasing latency on idle box with ASUS P4B533VM board

2005-08-19 Thread Arjan van der Oest
with 3com PCI nic) connected to the same router is showing normal latency. This gives me the feeling it's some sort of timing issue on the P4's motherboard itself. Has anyone seen this before? I've searched the archives and found little on this topic. Any tips/hints where I ca

Re: Audio latency

2005-03-04 Thread J.E. Dooper
Well, I guess it's a sound driver problem, because when i tried those 4front OSS drivers ( http://www.opensound.com ) the latency was gone. Why can 4front OSS function without latency and freebsd's drivers not? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: Audio latency

2005-03-04 Thread Luyt
rqrate is used: http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/search?v=RELENG53;string=targetirqrate I reduced the audio latency in KDE by using Control Center / Sound & Multimedia / Sound System / Skip prevention slider to 100 ms. -- "The ability of the OSS process to collect and harness the collec

RE: Audio latency

2005-03-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of J.E. Dooper > Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:20 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Audio latency > > > Hi, > > My sound works and when I use m

Audio latency

2005-03-03 Thread J.E. Dooper
Hi, My sound works and when I use mplayer or xmms I don't experience any (noticable!) audio latency. In applications like doomlegacy and quakeforge I do. I think this might be the problem: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2004-August/055314.html Though I

Re: high latency

2005-02-21 Thread Skylar Thompson
Peter Risdon wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 11:52 +0200, Chris Knipe wrote: Hi, I have 4 FreeBSD Servers connected to a Cisco 2950 all doing inter-VLAN routing. Everything is working right, but one server is getting absurdly high latency through the VLANs. [...] Now, the problematic

RE: high latency

2005-02-21 Thread Peter Risdon
thing is working right, but one server is > > getting absurdly > > > high latency through the VLANs. > > > > [...] > > > > > Now, the problematic box is running a RealTek card, > > > > Ugh. You don't say which one, but I just cured a p

RE: high latency

2005-02-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter Risdon > Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 3:31 AM > To: Chris Knipe > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: high latency > > > On Mon, 2005-02-21 at

Re: Re: high latency

2005-02-21 Thread Chris Knipe
Hi, I have 4 FreeBSD Servers connected to a Cisco 2950 all doing inter-VLAN routing. Everything is working right, but one server is getting absurdly high latency through the VLANs. [...] Now, the problematic box is running a RealTek card, Ugh. You don't say which one, but I just cured a prob

Re: high latency

2005-02-21 Thread Peter Risdon
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 11:52 +0200, Chris Knipe wrote: > Hi, > > I have 4 FreeBSD Servers connected to a Cisco 2950 all doing inter-VLAN > routing. Everything is working right, but one server is getting absurdly > high latency through the VLANs. [...] > Now, the problemati

high latency

2005-02-21 Thread Chris Knipe
Hi, I have 4 FreeBSD Servers connected to a Cisco 2950 all doing inter-VLAN routing. Everything is working right, but one server is getting absurdly high latency through the VLANs. problem box: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cknipe# ping 198.19.0.1 PING 198.19.0.1 (198.19.0.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes

Re: FreeBSD pcm(4) latency (From write() to audible output)

2004-08-13 Thread Peter Wood
Heya Dan, I've found that there is about a 800ms delay between the output data being written to /dev/dsp and being able to hear the output from the soundcard on FreeBSD. I'm working to a 200ms deadline. What's your write size? At 44100khz*2 channels, a 65k write would take around 800 ms to play.

Re: FreeBSD pcm(4) latency (From write() to audible output)

2004-08-13 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 13), Peter Wood said: > I'm currently in the middle of writing an automated radio playout > system for a northern student radio station in the UK (post SBN > liquidation). > > I have the requirement of it running on a *nix system. I'm a large > BSD advocate between our fri

FreeBSD pcm(4) latency (From write() to audible output)

2004-08-13 Thread Peter Wood
le this isn't a problem for mpg123, it is for this application. I've tried to find where the delay is, however I haven't had any luck. Could anyone knowledgable let me know if there's any hope for getting rid of it (hacking the kernel is fine ;) or if I should "give up"

Re: Simulating network latency

2004-05-14 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 19:05, Kevin Stevens wrote: > On Fri, 14 May 2004, Mike Jeays wrote: > > > Is there a way to set up a machine with two network cards, which will > > simply forward every packet from one card to the other, but will > > introduce an arbitrary delay period? Ideally, the delay p

Re: Simulating network latency

2004-05-14 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Fri, 14 May 2004, Mike Jeays wrote: > Is there a way to set up a machine with two network cards, which will > simply forward every packet from one card to the other, but will > introduce an arbitrary delay period? Ideally, the delay period should > be adjustable, and optionally different in

Simulating network latency

2004-05-14 Thread Mike Jeays
We have a proprietary application which will not work properly over our WAN, even though there is more than enough bandwidth. It works fine on a LAN. We suspect a latency problem, mainly because we can't think of anything else it might be. We are not getting any help from the vendor. Is th

Re: Latency problem with traffic shaping (ipfw/dummynet)

2004-03-21 Thread Vincent Poy
the weight number really mean 99%, 98%, 97% priority? So > > should it really be 66, 33, and 1? > > no, the weights mean exactly what i wrote above, and they > are weights not priorities. As to the values to use, > that's entirely up to you. Just as I thought.

Re: Latency problem with traffic shaping (ipfw/dummynet)

2004-03-21 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:56:08PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote: ... > > the above configuration means that if queue 1 is getting a bandwidth > > X, then queue 2 will get 0.99X, queue 3 will get 0.98X, queue > > 4 will get 0.97X. Hardly matching any reasonable definition of high-mid-low > > priority! >

Re: Latency problem with traffic shaping (ipfw/dummynet)

2004-03-20 Thread Vincent Poy
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > cannot comment on the reason for the huge delay (but one > way to check what is going on is to change the pipe's bandwidth > and see if anything changes), but i see a big > misunderstanding on weights vs. priorities in your > configuration: The de

Re: Latency problem with traffic shaping (ipfw/dummynet)

2004-03-20 Thread Luigi Rizzo
cannot comment on the reason for the huge delay (but one way to check what is going on is to change the pipe's bandwidth and see if anything changes), but i see a big misunderstanding on weights vs. priorities in your configuration: > # Define our upload pipe > ${fwcmd} pipe 1 config bw 48

Latency problem with traffic shaping (ipfw/dummynet)

2004-03-20 Thread Vincent Poy
xes behind it. The issue is that tracerouting from any box other than the FreeBSD box shows latencies of 1000+ms after the FreeBSD router beginning with hop 2 when the upstream pipe is being used while the FreeBSD box shows the latency at 40-50ms which is correct under traffic load. Anyone knows

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-27 Thread Aloha Guy
Chris Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Aloha Guy wrote: > Already tried that and it did improve things a little. I tried > setting the HZ to 1000 and it didn't make much of a difference. Is > there a larger number that actually works well? You can try higher HZ numbers, but

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-27 Thread Chris Dillon
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Aloha Guy wrote: > Already tried that and it did improve things a little. I tried > setting the HZ to 1000 and it didn't make much of a difference. Is > there a larger number that actually works well? You can try higher HZ numbers, but you might run into other problems. Expe

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-26 Thread Aloha Guy
Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 26, 2004, at 5:59 PM, Aloha Guy wrote: > Charles Swiger wrote: >> There's your issue right there: if you care about the millisecond >> level >> granularity of network traffic going by this router, you ought to set >> HZ to 1000 as documented in "man

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-26 Thread Aloha Guy
Chris Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Aloha Guy wrote: > > What do you have HZ set to (see sysctl kern.clockrate)? I think I > > remember your original message showing you using pipes and queues > > and the HZ setting can affect those. Also see if y

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-26 Thread Chris Dillon
ptember 2003 > -CURRENT so I don't know if it's a issue with the current networking > code back then or not. What do you have HZ set to (see sysctl kern.clockrate)? I think I remember your original message showing you using pipes and queues and the HZ setting can affect those. Also s

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-26 Thread Aloha Guy
es and the HZ setting can affect those. Also see if your latency improves if you remove all pipe and queue rules (other ipfw rules are OK). Here is the HZ setting: kern.clockrate: { hz = 100, tick = 1, profhz = 1024, stathz = 128 } I'm not sure how to remove the pipe since I don't thi

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-26 Thread Chris Dillon
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Aloha Guy wrote: > > What do you have HZ set to (see sysctl kern.clockrate)? I think I > > remember your original message showing you using pipes and queues > > and the HZ setting can affect those. Also see if your latency > > improves if you remove

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-26 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 26, 2004, at 4:53 PM, Aloha Guy wrote: Here is the HZ setting: kern.clockrate: { hz = 100, tick = 1, profhz = 1024, stathz = 128 } There's your issue right there: if you care about the millisecond level granularity of network traffic going by this router, you ought to set HZ to 1000 as

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-26 Thread Aloha Guy
Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 26, 2004, at 4:53 PM, Aloha Guy wrote: > Here is the HZ setting: > > kern.clockrate: { hz = 100, tick = 1, profhz = 1024, stathz = 128 } There's your issue right there: if you care about the millisecond level granularity of network traffic goin

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-26 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 26, 2004, at 5:59 PM, Aloha Guy wrote: Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There's your issue right there: if you care about the millisecond level granularity of network traffic going by this router, you ought to set HZ to 1000 as documented in "man dummynet". [ ... ] Knew I forgot to

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-25 Thread Aloha Guy
Chris Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Aloha Guy wrote: > Any ideas what is causing this? Is it the xl0 driver because I've > used FreeBSD machines as ethernet routers before with a similar > setup except there was no NAT involved and used the fxp drivers and > it never had

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-25 Thread Chris Dillon
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Aloha Guy wrote: > Any ideas what is causing this? Is it the xl0 driver because I've > used FreeBSD machines as ethernet routers before with a similar > setup except there was no NAT involved and used the fxp drivers and > it never had this problem. Thanks for your help in adv

FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-25 Thread Aloha Guy
201.x.225 (Intel PRO/1000CT CSA NIC connected to the same HP switch) or 208.201.x.226 (3Com 920c (905 compatible connected to the same HP switch), it seems to add some latency and timeout between hop 1 and two and beyond which is the FreeBSD box and other side of the DSL link as shown below: T

Re: latency

2004-01-21 Thread Cordula's Web
> How much is latency in FreeBSD? ??? > I would like to listen music playing on FreeBSD PC with hi-fi sound. > First I need to be sure the system latency is low enough. I'm listening mp3's (with mpg123) on a old 200 MHz Pentium box, which is running -STABLE. At the s

Re: latency

2004-01-21 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello, On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 00:29:23 +0600 Stas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > How much is latency in FreeBSD? > > I would like to listen music playing on FreeBSD PC with hi-fi sound. > First I need to be sure the system latency is low enough. It depends. a) W

Re: latency

2004-01-21 Thread Lance E. Lott
$19.95. Sorry, couldn't resist... Lance At 12:29 PM 1/21/2004, you wrote: Hello, How much is latency in FreeBSD? I would like to listen music playing on FreeBSD PC with hi-fi sound. First I need to be sure the system latency is low enough. -- Best regards,

latency

2004-01-21 Thread Stas
Hello, How much is latency in FreeBSD? I would like to listen music playing on FreeBSD PC with hi-fi sound. First I need to be sure the system latency is low enough. -- Best regards, Stas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Sound latency

2004-01-20 Thread Matthew Faircliff
ct: Re: Sound latency Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:42:03 GMT Hi Matthew! Matthew Faircliff ?crit: > Hello folks, > > I'm running FreeBSD 5.1 on a Asus M2E laptop with AC97 sound. Runs > like a charm but for one thing: when playing mp3s through xmms or > mpg123 the songs seem to

Re: Sound latency

2004-01-19 Thread ogautherot
Hi Matthew! Matthew Faircliff écrit: > Hello folks, > > I'm running FreeBSD 5.1 on a Asus M2E laptop with AC97 sound. Runs > like a charm but for one thing: when playing mp3s through xmms or > mpg123 the songs seem to be about 5-10% slower than normal. I would suspect that the MP3 file has bee

Sound latency

2004-01-19 Thread Matthew Faircliff
Hello folks, I'm running FreeBSD 5.1 on a Asus M2E laptop with AC97 sound. Runs like a charm but for one thing: when playing mp3s through xmms or mpg123 the songs seem to be about 5-10% slower than normal. The latency is only noticable if you listen closely, but it is definately not a fi

Re: How to simulate high latency links?

2002-11-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 03), Max Clark said: > So if I want to do testing between machine A and B I can route all of > the traffic trough a machine C with dummynet and simulate the network > environment that I need? Sure. You can also add the rules to either A or B and do the same thing, or even

RE: How to simulate high latency links?

2002-11-03 Thread Max Clark
: Re: How to simulate high latency links? In the last episode (Nov 03), Max Clark said: > Hi, > > I am looking for a way to do some performance testing/tuning in a lab > environment. I have a high latency low speed link (T1/200MS) that I need > to replicate. > > Are there any

Re: How to simulate high latency links?

2002-11-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 03), Max Clark said: > Hi, > > I am looking for a way to do some performance testing/tuning in a lab > environment. I have a high latency low speed link (T1/200MS) that I need > to replicate. > > Are there any ways to do this with FreeBSD? dummynet

How to simulate high latency links?

2002-11-03 Thread Max Clark
Hi, I am looking for a way to do some performance testing/tuning in a lab environment. I have a high latency low speed link (T1/200MS) that I need to replicate. Are there any ways to do this with FreeBSD? Thanks in advance, Max -- Mailution Email Solutions http://www.mailution.net To