* smc2911 shaped the electrons to say...

I should have realised that I had done something different. Although I
had not added any new music I had made a new playlist (all the music
the significant other likes). Turning on d_scan and running tail -f
/var/log/slimserver/slimserver.log while triggering a clear & rescan,
it became clear that the poor performance all occurred when scanning
the playlist, not the music collection itself. Now the playlist was
pretty long (around 5000 tracks) and to make matters worse, I had set
my music directory to /home/music and playlist directory to
/home/music/playlists which meant that the playlist was actually
scanned twice (aside: do I correctly deduce from this that it is better
not to have your playlists directory a sub-directory of your music
root). Temporarily removing the offending playlist massively improved
performance.

SlimServer should skip over playlists that are under your music directory.

By this point my performance had improved and I had most of the missing
artwork back, but a few were still missing. For the remaining missing
images, it looks as though the bug
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3245 has reappeared since
all of the missing artwork sits in directories which included accented
characters. Since these images were working fines a few days ago and I
haven't modified those files/directories, I'd guess that the bug has
returned.

This patch was applied only to 6.5. Is that what you're running?

Thanks

-D
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<faisal> my life is collapsing to what will soon be NEGATIVE INTEGER degrees of 
separation.
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