Performance

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Hello Sven

Thanks Sven. How do I remove the preempt patch and what is it? 

I have a Sounblaster live coming in will that help?

Thomas


On 02/23/2004, you wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:20:43PM +0200, Marcin Kurek wrote:
>> Hell[o] 
>> 
>> Some time ago I installed MOL on my machine and I am quite impresed. It
>> works quite fast and stable here, nice :) 
>> 
>> Anyway I want to ask about any performace tips that I can use to make it
>> better and faster. Currently the 2D operations are quite fast but sound
>> works bad IMHO, in any CPU consuming app is running the sound is
>> disorted. Propably there is something to set in configuration file for
>> sound ? I use "alsa" driver, any suggestions ?
> 
> Well, the pegasos sound card is a 'soft-sound' thingy, as are all AC97
> solutions, so it is normal that heavy load cause problems, since the CPU
> has no time to process the sound stuff.
> 
> This is in particular made worse if you use the preempt patch, since
> then the random application can preempt the sound driver, causing the
> distorsion. The best solution would be to get a real sound card, which
> doesn't leave all the processing to the CPU.
> 
>> I will be gratefull for any tips, currently I use almost default
>> configuration (I change Ram to 128 only) and MOL runs MacOSX 10.3.2 on
>> Pegasos2 G4 1GHz with Radeon9000Pro && SBAudigy.
> 
> Mmm, it seems you already do that, since you use the SBAudigy, in this
> case, make sure you remove the preempt patch, or if the problem
> persists, post on the mol-general mailing list. Does the problem also
> occur on heavy load without MOL ?
> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther
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