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On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Paul Hartman writes: |
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>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> |
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>> wrote: |
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>> > Then my hardware broke, and I got new one, except for the system hard |
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>> > drive and the PSU. It's an AMD FX-4100 quad-core with 3.6 GHz, 16 G of |
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>> > RAM. Running gentoo-sources-3.2.1 as kernel. But it seems playing |
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>> > movies got even worse! |
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>> You don't mention anything about video card or video driver setup. |
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>> That's the first thing I would suspect. |
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>> What video card? What drivers? Are you using hardware accelerated |
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>> movie playback? |
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> Sorry. Radeon HD 4250 onboard graphics, using the open source radeon |
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> driver. Hardware acceleration is working fine. As I wrote, it doesn't |
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> matter which quality the videos are. There is not much CPU being used at |
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> all, around 5% to 20%, so this is not the bottleneck. |
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> Wonko |
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I wonder if you copy the movie to /dev/shm first (so disk I/O is not |
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an issue) does it still have problems? At least this can potentially |
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eliminate disk I/O as the cause if something else weird is going on. |
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:) |
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For the problem of massive amounts of RAM consumed, that's strange. |
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Are you compiling debug symbols? That can make the RAM usage (in |
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linking especially) explode... |
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