From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: joy Subject: Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:43:33 +0530 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4064105D.60903@sancharnet.in> References: <405FAC4A.1000609@sancharnet.in> <5.1.0.14.1.20040322210149.01fdd960@celine> <5.1.0.14.1.20040323094003.01fc9810@celine> <5.1.0.14.1.20040324084506.01f89290@celine> Reply-To: gracecott@sancharnet.in Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii" To: Ray Olszewski Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Ray Olszewski wrote: > > Hard to say from this description if you are seeing the problems I > read about or not. With a sufficiently fast CPU ... a 3 GHz P4, say > ... I could run xine this way using xshm, and that video method is a > real CPU hog. A better test would be something like this: > > 1. run a single instance of xine in the current display, playing back > something suitable (I don't know what "Highway Star" is ... or, more > important to the test, how it It's apparent that you are not a great fan of rock music....;-) > is encoded (what resolution, what bitrate, what codec)). Make sure > xine is using xVideo ("xine -V xv filename_to_play"). Have xine > resizing the video ... double size if that works to keep everything > actually visible onscreen. did that..... OK > > 2. also in the current display, run "top". With the entire xie > playback visible onscreen, note both total CPU use and its components. > The total should be quite low, under 5% usually, if all is working > smoothly. If the total is high, and both the "system" and "user" > components contribute significantly to it, you are seeing the problem > I've read about, even if the system is managing to keep up. in the output of top, I found the xine part of it and it takes up very little, around 3-4% max whereas libarts, which I guess is the Kde libs takes up 50%(too much, IMHO) so I guess it is mem hogs like KDE that constitute the problem...... > > 3. Mention what CPU -- type and speed -- is involved. The faster the > CPU, the lower the number should be in step 2. Cpu- athlon 2400+ video- geforce4 64 mb ram 512 mb ddr main mem > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs