The server has now run for two days without any glitches. Logging the
perl.exe process shows that the hourly CPU spikes have stopped.

Thanks again for the help.

One last question, is there any downside to disabling writing the tag
cache to disk?

Richard


On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 21:06:07 +0000, Richie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, I've made a couple of changes now.
> 
> 1. Disabled the SlimServer service
> 2. Installed ActivePerl
> 3. Modified info.pm as suggested
> 
> Now, clicking on slimserver.pl in the original installation folder
> appears to get SlimServer up and running with no problem. Its just a
> matter of waiting and listening to see if this has cured the hourly
> dropouts.
> 
> Thanks for all the help so far.
> 
> Richard
> 
> On 19 Feb 2005 10:32:21 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi chaps,
> >
> > I am the original poster of that bg report and I found the solution
> > proposed by Jason (changing the save interval) solved the problem for
> > me. That was with the 5.3.x release. Since then I have upgraded to
> > 5.4.0 and the hourly dropouts have returned, so I'm planning to make
> > the same change again in the 5.4.0 codebase.
> >
> > FWIW, I am running the source distribution on Solaris. That means I
> > run slimserver.pl and I actually have the file Music/Info.pm present
> > in the slimserver home directory. This is the file which I edited last
> > time, which solved the problem.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Nico
> >
> > Aaron Zinck writes:
> >
> >     > "Richie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> >     > message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >     >> Thanks. I had seen that. I changed the value from 3600 to 600000 and
> >     >> it made no difference. However, I'm unsure what you mean by source
> >     >> distro, I'm just using the executable (SlimServer_v5.4.0.exe) I
> >     >> downloaded off the Slim download page.
> >     >>
> >     >> Richard
> >
> >     > Richard,
> >     > Sorry--honestly hadn't looked for that file myself, was just quoting 
> > what
> >     > that poster had said.  I've never had to mess with this so I'm afraid 
> > I
> >     > can't offer any more help.
> >
> >     > -Aaron
> >
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