slow performance on ultra 10

[john55]

I was just testing out the multimedia capabilites of the ultra 10(333, 24bit vid,128MB).

During playback of mpeg videos playback is slow at full- or even double the screen size.

Trust me watching a VCD at 120x286 is not fun.

 

[dirtyjoe]

If your used disk space is not excessive. To do this without reformatting, partitioning, reloading try increasing your swap space using this example:

#create a 1GB extra swap space on slice 7 using a file #called extra_swap that
#is empty but has a gigabyte allocated

mkfile 1024m /h/extra_swap
swap -a /h/extra_swap

#then add an entry to /etc/rc2.d/S01MOUNTFSYS something #like this
#around the first 5 lines

/usr/sbin/swap -a /h/extra_swap

 

[lfoata]

You may also want to add some RAM.
128 megs is pretty slim these days.
Check if you are swapping too much with vmstat.