Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

[Roland Smith]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:16:51PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote:
> 
> The issue I'm having is that every minute or two, I will hear some 
> stuttering in any audio/video playback (will see the video freeze if 
> video), and my mouse will freeze for a few seconds as well while this 
> happens. It seems to happen more frequently if I have something doing 
> disk I/O, such as downloads running, untarring files, or torrents. Right 
> now, I have the following applications open:

My amd64 machine does not have this problem. I'm running 5.4-STABLE:

FreeBSD slackbox.xs4all.nl 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Wed Aug 10
20:25:45 CEST 2005 rsmith at slackbox.xs4all.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RFS amd64

One thing I did do was enlarge the soundcard's DMA buffer in
/boot/device.hints:

# Larger DMA buffer for the soundcard, for better sound quality.
hint.pcm.0.buffersize="16384"

Roland
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