Phil, you CERTAINLY have enough hardware for this! I'm running 5.4.0 and 5.4.1 just fine on much less hardware. No hiccups, no crashes, it's the family music system. Just runs, like I would expect for HiFi gear.
I suggest a test... Take one of your old machine, do a straight-up default linux installation and put a few hundred songs on it. I don't know if it's your mixed drive types, the RAID, or the "no-VM" that's causing the problem, but it's something that's causing the problems. Or, post some logs here. It IS frustrating when things don't work. -- Sally On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:19:20 -0800, Phil Karn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 5.4.0 does usually stay up for a day or two, and as long as I don't try > to add stuff to the database it usually works modulo occasional, long > and unexpected pauses in responding to even trivial commands from the > remote control or the web interface, and unexplained and sometimes long > interruptions while playing back FLAC files over a 100 Mb/s wired > connection. > This is an otherwise solidly reliable 4U rackmount 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 > running Linux 2.6.11, with 2 GB of ECC memory and 2.3 TB of EIDE and > SATA disk storage organized into RAID-1 and RAID-5 arrays. With that > much memory, I don't bother with a swap partition, so VM thrashing is > not a problem. The Antec box is loaded with big cooling fans, and > internal temperatures are well controlled. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > -- Sally Shears (a.k.a. "Molly") [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (was [EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
