Degraded X Performance in 7.0

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Thu Aug 7 15:54:18 UTC 2008


george+freebsd at m5p.com a écrit :
> Yesterday, I wrote:
>> On: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:28:19 -0400
>> "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 1:49 PM,  <george+freebsd at m5p.com> wrote:
>>>> Between FreeBSD 6.2 and FreeBSD 7.0, something has happened with
>>>> performance.  Using a generic 6.2 kernel and the X server which
>>>> shipped with it, and mplayer built with the defaults from ports,
>>>> I would play a movie from an NFS-mounted disk, with mplayer using
>>>> roughly 30% of the CPU time and xorg less than 5%.  On the very same
>>>> hardware upgraded to a generic 7.0 kernel and the X server which
>>>> shipped with it, and mplayer built with the defaults from ports,
>>>> playing the same movie from the same NFS-mounted disk, mplayer
>>>> still takes roughly 30% of the CPU, but xorg is taking 35-40% of
>>>> the CPU!  The quality of the playback is noticeably rough.  What
>>>> should I be looking for?  The diff between an old Xorg.0.log and
>>>> a new one is pretty massive.  I have an ATI Technologies Inc Rage
>>>> XL AGP 2X rev 39, Mem @ 0xce000000/24, 0xcfeff000/12, I/O @ 0x8800/8,
>>>> BIOS @ 0xcfec0000/17 according to the log.
>>>>
>>> It sounds like your graphics card isn't doing as much work as it should.
>>> Could you post the results of dmesg and your Xorg.0.log somewhere
>>> accessible?  It would be best if versions before and after the upgrade
>>> were available.
>>>
>>> -Ben Kaduk
>>>
>> Here's the info:
>>
>> http://www.m5p.com/~george/freebsd/
>>
>> and thanks for your attention!                      -- George Mitchell
> 
> Now I've fixed the premissions so you can actually read them.  Sorry!
> -- George Mitchell
> 

Did you finally resolved your problem? If so, I would be interested in 
some indications.

Martin



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