Hmm, my experiences are to the contrary. My CPU is nowhere near as fast as yours - Athlon XP 1500+, and I have less memory (1.25Gb RAM), and I've never experienced problems, despite the fact that it's running as Domain Controller, serving DNS, DHCP, IIS and MySQL, as well as acting as fileserver for our home network. I routinely stream to work, and just ensure that IIS etc are sufficiently throttled to allow the stream enough room. I've never had a problem with either of my SB's on the LAN. Perhaps your problems are IO-related? I'm running hardware RAID-5, so multiple disc access isn't such a strain on the CPU.
Chris -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 April 2005 07:45 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: RE: [slim] Building a house server? If you are planning to use this as a proper server and run services such as file & print, internet hosting, etc you would probably be better with Linux as this could handle it. Don't think you would get away with Windows 2003 mine sometime grinds to a halt and that is a P4 3.0Ghz with 1.5 Gb RAM. If people are downloading from the server then it can affect the slimserver stream. You may get away with more services running if you set up some QoS or you could try W2000 Server which is not so memory hungry. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
