[Mplayer-users] Tooooo slow

[Felix Buenemann]

On Friday, 27. July 2001 19:33, you wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 04:29:38PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> > > But even `-vo null' is too slow!
> >
> > Then you have really probs with hw.
> > I have celeron2-600 overclocked to 900mhz, but dvd decoding (-vo null)
> > eats about 25% cpu (it's about 225MHz if calced back):
>
> Strange.  i used hdparm to double my disk speed and i've been tweaking my
> BIOS settings all night, but it's still not fast enough.
In case you have an IDE DVD drive make sure you enable DMA access for it 
using hdparm, or diskaccess will eat a lot of cpu time (see high sys time inn 
your benchmark).

>
> > BENCHMARK%: V: 19.3859% VO:  0.0000% A:  4.1101% Sys: 76.5040% =
> > 100.0000%
>
> i'm getting something more like:
>
> BENCHMARK%: V: 27.1969% VO:  0.0000% A: 14.9036% Sys: 57.8995% = 100.0000%
>
> > i think your cpu should be enough for pure decoding, maybe the drive
> > is too slow, or maybe your cache/memory?
> > or simply amd sucks :)
>
> Possible.  :-P

-- 
Best Regards,
   Felix

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