Re: X slowness on 5.3rc1

Vulpes Velox wrote:

>Any suggestions for fixing the slowness of X on 5.3rc1?
>
>Compared too 5.2.1, it crawls :(
>
>Is there any sorta debugging I can turn off that has not been turned
>off by defualt yet? Was just thinking of these, and I sorta remember
>it being announced that it is all turned off at beta3 or 5 or so?
>
>Also for some reason I have to put "machdep.disable_mtrrs=1" in the
>loader.conf now or it freezes upon start now.
>
>Any ways, here is the output from dmesg
>
>Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
>Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993,
>1994        The Regents of the University of California. All rights
>reserved. FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 #1: Wed Oct 20 09:41:47 CDT 2004
>    root_at_fennec:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/fennec-1
>Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
>CPU: AMD Duron(tm) processor (1300.01-MHz 686-class CPU)
>  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x671  Stepping = 1
>  
>
(1300.01-MHz _*686-class*_ CPU)  <<===

>Here is my kernel config....
>machine		i386
>cpu		I686_CPU
>ident		fennec-1
>
>#CPU options
>options         CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK
>options		CPU_ENABLE_SSE
>options		CPU_FASTER_5X86_FPU
>  
>
Don't use these options, 686 implies SSE/MMX stuff.

Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,_*SSE*_> 
AMD
FreeBSD already identifies it, or it could be because of your options 
but I think not.

options CPU_FASTER_5X86_FPU is for  Cryix 5x86

http://people.freebsd.org/~kato/cpuident.html

Also how does your /etc/make.conf look?

Have you tried ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf, or something like this.  It is 
in the archives under current if you search for it.

$ sysctl -da | grep machdep.dis
machdep.disable_rtc_set:
machdep.disable_mtrrs: Disable i686 MTRRs.   <<==very bad for 
performance, most likely here because of some bad cyrix options you 
have.  Those are for a 586(I think 586) class cpu