I have an HP MediaSmart EX485 (2Ghz Celeron, 2GB RAM, 6TB disk). I have a large library of ~69,000 songs, a third of which are FLAC, the rest mostly MP3 with a very small amount of WMA files. I decided to compare the performance of my WHS installation to a standalong Ubuntu running version 7.3, both systems accessing the same music library stored on the MediaSmart server. I have a Dell Optiplex SX270 running Ubuntu 8.1 which was my previous SC server running version 7.3 So, over the weekend, I cleaned off my previous WHS installation from the HP (actually did a factory restore, but that's for a different thread) installed 7.4-27051 for WHS without a glitch. I pointed it to my music on its local drive and started the scanning process - it took over 12 hours to complete and all the while my processor was pegged at 100% and I couldn't access the console reliably. I had to rely on remote desktop to see what was going on. I waited patiently for it to finish, then I fired up the Optiplex, installed 7.3 and pointed it to the same share on my WHS server. It took only 6 hours.
This seems counter intuitive since the WHS Server accessed the music locally and the Ubuntu server was acessing the share via ethernet. I know there are many variables in my comparison (7.3 vs 7.4, MySQL vs SQLITE, Ubuntu vs WHS, local drives versus network share), but I wondered if any conclusions can be drawn? I've used various WHS nightlies for the past several months, but the move to SQLITE has me concerned about performance for my particular library of music. Is SQLITE possibly the culprit? I would love to run SC on my MediaSmart. Any chance that customers will be allowed to choose which DBMS back-end we'd prefer to use? -- NCBluesman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NCBluesman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22354 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63055 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
