[mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

Thu Jan 19 17:59:14 UTC 2006

Yeah I'm still having problems.  Could someone with a working ATI vid card
send me their xorg please?

The following are the results of cat /proc/cpuinfo and /sbin/lspci

Thanks for the help.

cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 3
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
stepping        : 4
cpu MHz         : 3192.213
cache size      : 1024 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 5
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pni monitor ds_cpl
cid xtpr
bogomips        : 6389.96

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 3
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
stepping        : 4
cpu MHz         : 3192.213
cache size      : 1024 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 5
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pni monitor ds_cpl
cid xtpr
bogomips        : 6384.38

/sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/P Memory Controller Hub
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/P PCI Express Graphics Port
00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition
Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port
1 (rev 01)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI
Express Port 5 (rev 01)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI
Express Port 6 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1
(rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2
(rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3
(rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4
(rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GH (ICH7DH) LPC Interface Bridge
(rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller
(rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial
ATA Storage Controllers cc=IDE (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev
01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon
X300 (PCIE)]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE]
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet
Controller (rev 01)
05:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
05:02.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev
07)
05:04.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
(CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
05:05.0 Serial controller: Timedia Technology Co Ltd PCI2S550 (Dual 16550
UART) (rev 01)

On 1/18/06, Anthony Vito <anthony.vito at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Why are you using a SMP kernel? I've never used a Dual Core processor,
> but
> > > I'm guessing that even then you'd probably be better off with a
> standard
> > > (optimized) kernel.
> >
> > I disagree.  Its hard for me to imagine any realworld situation
> > where a smp kernel on a hyperthreaded cpu would not perform at least
> > as well as a non-smp kernel.  And if you have a true dual core cpu,
> > definately use it.  HT may only be a very modest improvement, but
> > I have 2 machines with 2 Xeon HT cpus, and I set them both up for 4
> > cpu smp support.
> >
>
> HyperThreading is a horrible kludge. It required every OS to rewrite
> their process schedulers to not die context switching to an imaginary
> processor. The Linux kernel claims to have a hyper threading aware
> scheduler, but I've never been happy with it running on a loaded
> server. With mythTV, you'll really won't notice any difference either
> way, so just the standard kernel.
>
> Like Brian said, dual cores are a different matter. You must run the
> SMP kernel or your not using half the silicon.
>
> However... back to the OP. cat /proc/cpuinfo  and  /sbin/lspci  and
> post em if you're still having problems.
>
>
> --
> Anthony Vito
> anthony.vito at gmail.com
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