Yes, I've seen the same problem, shuffling or unshuffling even moderately sized playlists will cause the server to stop responding for 20-40 seconds and in at least one case caused the server to completely die. I have a very robust server and only about 7,000 tracks so shouldn't be seeing this sort of performance problem. Something in the shuffle/unshuffle routine is hosed.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Free Lunch > Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 2:00 PM > To: Slim Devices Discussion > Subject: Re: [slim] 6.01 eval and performance > > On Apr 3, 2005 3:13 AM, Jack Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 7710 songs. > > > > add all songs to a new playlist (35 seconds or so), then > hit shuffle > > by album (maybe 70 seconds before the webui refreshed with the new > > data). I have high CPU usage, but that's what it's there > for... it's > > hardly interfering with anything else. The slimp3 display goes dark > > for about 30 seconds, then it's fine. I wasn't trying to > play music, > > people are trying to sleep here :) > > Ah-hah! But what about when you *are* trying to play music? ;-) > > It seems like you're seeing a similar performance problem, > regardless of the disk i/o pattern specifics. > > I run into this one a lot. I frequently listen to shuffled > playlists and then decide I want to continue listening to the > artist or release currently playing.. So I simply unshuffle > the play list. But then I incur the music outages, slimserver > limbo, etc. Pushing a button on the remote shouldn't 'knock > out' the display 30 or 70 seconds (the "OH > - Don't push that button!!" button when doing a demo). > > I note that re-sorting the playlist on the system is pretty quick: > > % time sort -r __00_04_20_04_0a_b1.m3u > /dev/null > 0.008u 0.002s 0:00.00 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w > > > Regards, > > FL > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
