I've been experiencing problems with SC 7.3.3 for some time, music stopping playing for no reason at all, songs being cut off at the end, SC showing one song in a playlist playing when what was actually playing was the following song. But I was never sure whether this was SC or my wireless network. Now that I'm seeing a stable wireless setup with r6038, I've looked more closely at SC.
I'm running Windows XP, SP3, IE8, and what I see is that when SC starts up it starts an instance of iexplorer.exe. In task Manager this starts with about 47MB of memory, but over time the memory used keeps climbing. This morning, after a reboot of my system it continued climbing until it had reached 90MB. At that point I shut off both my duet (which had been playing), and also my boom (just in case). iexplorer.exe continued to grow in memory size. As all this is going on, it also is showing iexplorer.exe usage varying between 11% and 25% of my machine. To calibrate this, Squeez~1.exe in task manager normally runs with regular blips of 2% cpu usage. After the memory usage had climbed over 90M this morning, I shut down SC (with the red X in the ie window), and iexplorer.exe instantly disappeared from the task manager list. I can't be certain because I wasn't specifically looking at this at the time, but when SC and my duet where behaving particularly weirdly a while ago (pre r6038), I think I saw an iexplorer.exe instance in task manager that had consumed 114MB at that point. I had learned at that time that completely stopping and restarting SC would get things back to normal, but I hadn't investigated what was going on. It seems highly unlikely to me that this memory growth is normal. Is this expected operation for SC, or is this a problem? FWIW, I checked the server.log, and there is absolutely nothing in it after the start of SC this morning. Here's the details on my setup. Both the duet and the boom are wireless, with the duet sitting behind a range extender. Version: 7.3.3 - 26751 @ Sat May 30 03:08:37 PDT 2009 Hostname: DESKTOP Server IP Address: 192.168.1.100 Server HTTP Port Number: 9000 Operating system: Windows XP - EN - cp1252 Platform Architecture: 586 Perl Version: 5.8.8 - MSWin32-x86-multi-thread MySQL Version: 5.0.22-community-nt Total Players Recognized: 2 Bedroom Player Model: boom Firmware: 46 Player IP Address: 192.168.1.104 Player MAC Address: 00:04:20:1e:bd:a8 Wireless Signal Strength: 87% Living Room Player Model: receiver Firmware: 61 Player IP Address: 192.168.1.103 Player MAC Address: 00:04:20:16:e3:f2 Wireless Signal Strength: 92% -- CliffC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CliffC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29843 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64388 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
