On Wed, 14 May 2008 10:52:37 +0100
"Ying Shi"
Hi, all:
I have used suse for several days now. I am a home user, frequently watching movies and online video clips. I also have Windows XP in my PC.
As I notice, there is big performance difference between SUSE and XP when playing video media.
If your linux install can't even manage to perform as well as ms windows, then something is apparently broken on your linux setup.
For example, RealPlayer in XP plays video well. But in OpenSUSE, the same video also played in RealPlayer, it gets jitter and missing frames. When playing some online video clip embeded in webpage, XP is smooth and I can do other things and browse other pages. Everything is fine. But in SUSE, I can hardly do other things. Any other thing responds slowly. Other web page in firefox come up really slow.
Does anyone else have similar experience,
Hmm, nope. But, from the symptoms you described, one possibility is that your system is being savaged by beagle. Things to look for: run the top command and check to see if a process called beagle, or beagle-build-index, or similar, is running. I've found that beagle makes the system sluggish and interferes with my tasks, taking far, far more resources than justified by any benefit it could provide. Others may direct you to a newer version of beagle, but as a first step, remove beagle and everything that depends on beagle, and kill all remaining beagle processes, to see if that fixes things. Other things to check: Make sure your video drivers are properly set up - you didn't say which video card you have - if nvidia, you'll probably want to install the nvidia drivers. Mount your filesystems with the "noatime" option Make sure your ethernet is set to full duplex Set the time on your huge daily cron job to run in the middle of the night, or some other time when you're not using the machine. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org