Performance issues in 5.3-RELEASE.

[Ronald Klop]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:40:23 +0100, Krzysztof Kowalik  
<kkowalik at uci.agh.edu.pl> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>    Recently I took some time to upgrade my home 4.9 system to
> 5.3-RELEASE (fortunately, taking full system dump before, so I can
> easily get back). In fact just after upgrading I ran into the weird
> issue during installation for firefox port.
>
> When firefox-1.0-source.tar.bz2 is getting untared, the system starts to
> be *slow*: any music starts to be jittered and the cursor in X stalls
> from time to time for ~1 second.

For what I have seen everybody uses snd_emu10k1. Since I use my onboard  
soundcard (snd_ess* (not MPSAFE)) I have less problems with my sound under  
disk load.

Bit is just experience. I don't know about code internals.

Oh, I saw a post a while ago on stable@ or on current@ about a buffer in  
emu10k1. If it was increased it had less problems. Don't have the time to  
look up the post, sorry.

Ronald.

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  Ronald Klop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands