Dan Sully Wrote: > > > There's really only so much that can be done here.. the Windows FS > isn't the best for reading a large directory like that.. > >
In fact Windows XP does just fine; a short perl script that does nothing more than an opendir(), readdir(), closedir() on my music folder takes at most 1 second to run. (The file system is on an internal drive running on the same PC as the SlimServer.) I can even traverse my entire music library, about 16,000 files, using perl's File::Find package, in about 15 seconds. But since browsing the music folder only requires the perl code to read a single directory and create some HTML that represents what it finds, there's obviously a lot more going on and much room for improvement. There's simply no way the performance I'm seeing in 6.0.2 can be blamed on Windows XP. I had thought this was a known problem and something that was being worked on -- that there was a lot of unnecessary work going on with the DB in addition to just doing a readdir() -- but if that's not the case I'll file a bug report (or add my comments to an existing report if someone else has already done so). SBB -- Steve Baumgarten _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
