Strange system responsiveness issues with 5.1-CURRENT

[Julian St.]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:09:19 -0400
Munish Chopra <chopra at soulwax.net> 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.

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    
root at jmmr.no-ip.com:/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

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