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-leliel-
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 Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 5:27 pm Post subject: Performance Problems with KDE |
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Hi,
I'm on an Athlon XP 2000+ with 512 MB DDR Ram, a Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4200 and a Soundbaster Audigy Player.
If I emerge some programs or open about 10 Konqueror's for web browsing the mouse begins to stagnate.
I've installed Unreal Tournament 2003, but the sound was very poor. 
Is there a way to get a bit more power out of KDE, and some better quality out of my soundcard?
btw. there are about 400 MB ram in use, is this regular?
thanks
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shm
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1. Do you have DMA on?
2. What version of the NVIDIA drivers do you have?
3. What sound card drivers are you using? (OSS or alsa?) |
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The Khan Artist
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Also: What kernel are you using? |
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xcable
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 6:41 pm Post subject: desktop performance |
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Running KDE on a P3 1GHz works good for me, after some tweaking. A couple of things you can do...
1 - use ck sources (kernel sources)
2 - make sure your kernel is compiled for the correct sound chip
3 - make sure acpi is enabled in the kernel
4 - make sure low-latency is enabled in the kernel
5 - make sure preemption is enabled in the kernel
6 - make sure your C/C++ flags are set to optimize for your processor (if not then set and recompile KDE, XFree86, binutils, and glibc) |
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-leliel-
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
I've emerged the 2.4.20-gaming-r3 kernel, soundsystem is ALSA (+ KDE aRts). These are my CFLAGS:
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CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -mfpmath=sse,387"
# If you set a CFLAGS above, then this line will set your default C++ flags to
# the same settings.
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" |
DMA is enabled, but I don't know how to check this. The system also goes down on copying large files a.s.o.
The nvidia drivers are emerged, too. So they should be actual.
I'll try low-latency and preemption the next time I compile my kernel.
thanks
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neuron
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| hdparm /dev/hdX should show you (for example hdparm /dev/hda) |
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-leliel-
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 9:08 am Post subject: |
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bash-2.05b# hdparm /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
multcount = 16 (on)
IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
using_dma = 0 (off)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
geometry = 7476/255/63, sectors = 120103200, start = 0
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damn. What I have to do to get in DMA mode?
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djn
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 9:36 am Post subject: |
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I believe it is like this:
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hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
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You also might want to look at /etc/init.d/hdparm and /etc/conf.d/hdparm
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rc-update add hdparm boot
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Relevant sections of my /etc/conf.d/hdparm:
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disc0_args="-u1 -c1 -d1 -X66"
cdrom0_args="-d1"
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neuron
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| instead of using hdparm, you could also make sure you have compiled in support for your chipset in the kernel, if you have, it should enable dma properly automaticaly. |
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RangerDude
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 12:19 pm Post subject: Ranger |
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As for UT2003, I remember having chopy sound too. It was solved by a
It had something to do with an SDL option, as I recall.
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-leliel-
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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for i in ${all_discs}
do
tmp_args=${i}_args
eval hd_args=\$${tmp_args}
if [ -n "${hd_args}" ]
then
drives="$drives $i"
fi
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this is the disk section of my hdparm init script. Where I should insert -d1 -u1 a.s.o.?
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djn
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The /etc/init.d/hdparm script uses /etc/conf.d/hdparm for configuration. So you should not modify /etc/init.d/hdparm, only /etc/conf.d/hdparm
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