Quoting Joel Konkle-Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 20:02, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > > > >>Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > >>>On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:03, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>I'm experiencing periodic sluggishness when I play 3d games like Unreal > >>>>Tournament (natively) and Max Payne (WineX). It's not a framerate > >>>>problem, because there's no choppiness, it's periodic (a minute of > >>>>slowness, a couple minutes of normal, a couple of slow, et c.), and > >>>>there's no apparent relation to the complexity of the action when it > >>>>happens. The effect is as if the game itself is going into a slow-mo > >>>>mode (yes, I know, Max Payne has a slow-mo mode, but that's not what's > >>>>going on here). > >>>> > >>>>I have a new Dell 5150 with an nVidia GeForce FX 5200 using the latest > >>>>nVidia-supplied drivers. I don't have any apps running while I'm > >>>>playing the games, save for Gnome and its applets and such. > >>>> > >>>>Does anyone have any clue what could be the problem here? > >>> > >>> > >>>Can you ssh in from another system, and run top(1) in P mode? > >>>Maybe some intermittent process is jumping in. > >> > >>Assuming that any such process would be running even when I'm not in a > >>game, would simply watching top for a while work? > > > > > >Oh, ok, I assumed (yeah, yeah, I know) that these were full-screen > >games that would make that impossible. > > > > > >>Unfortunately I don't have another system to ssh from. > >> > >>As a test, I tried playing UT from twm, with none of the Gnome stuff > >>running. The same problem occurs. It appears to be kind of progressive: > >>it's fine for a good while, then slows for a moment, then is fine for a > >>shorter time, then slows, then fine, slows, fine, slows, et c. > > > > > >Have you tried any other games, like tuxracer? > > > > > >>Just from sitting here watching top for a while, it appears my highest > >>memory hog is Mozilla Mail checking for new messages, but that never > >>gets above 4%. I've run the game without Mozilla in the background, with > >>the same behavior. > >> > >>I've never noticed this effect in Windows. > > > > > >exim? SpamAssassin? PostgreSQL? > > > > As a test, I closed all open apps, turned off apache and mysqld, and > start up a round of Unreal Tournament. The problem continued, with > alternating periods of normal speed and slow speed, with the periods of > normal speed getting shorter as time went on. > > The only syslog entries during this time period were: >
Try turning off as many network servers as you can. On Quake III, if I shutdown Postfix, the SMTP server, and make sure I am not in SquirrelMail, a Webmail client that bangs on the IMAP server, then it runs much smoother. HTH, Jeffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
