Re: performance tuning?

From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 06/30/03

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To: quadrant <quadrant@apex.homedns.org>

    On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 03:02:27PM -0400, quadrant wrote:
    > 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!

    The first step towards tuning your system would be to stop using KDE.
    It's pretty slow and uses a lot of resources even on a fast machine.

    Kris

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