Re: Another "What Motherboard Should I Buy" question

Mark Adams <mark9117@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is hardware accelerated OpenGL enabled?

Yes.

Ok, but you still have very low OpenGL performance. The performance seems
even worse than what I have seen with software only (Mesa) OpenGL on a
Radeon 9250. I have seen 816 fps in glxgears with software rendering on a
9250. However, then the conditions were:

16 bit color depth
4x AGP
dual opteron
And, maybe most important, the machine was almost idle except for running
the benchmark.

Okay, but Mem is only used at about 50% (1011M with 503M free). If it's
only using half my RAM now, would it still allocate only 50% and swap
less if I increased the installed RAM?

If you have more than 500 MB free RAM at least your process should not be
waiting for being swapped out to disk.

I can't get AIGLX to work with the proprietary driver, so I run the OS.

With your card you should be able to get good performanc with the OS
driver. A few things to try:

Add the following row to the driver section in xorg.conf:

AGPMode=4

Setting AGP speed to 4x might be able to increase performance for both 2D
and 3D graphics.

Also, it seems as if your Firefox process is not consuming CPU and it is
not short on RAM. Then the questions remains: What is firefox wating for?
Maybe it is waiting for disk? Maybe it is some kind of network or DNS
misconfiguration?

Are you able to start firefox from a command line window like xterm? If
so, you might be able to do something like:

strace -f firefox

To see what the process is waiting for.

regards Henrik
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