thomas wrote:
Hello,
I have two original Slimp3s and one of the second generation wired
players. All three run from one Slimp3 server. The server has about
60GB of music. Often, there is more than one person viewing the web
interface. The players are only ever controlled from the web interface,
nobody has access to the hardware players or remotes.
The larger the music library gets, the worse the performance. It's
getting to a stage where it really isn't good enough to run - when for
example two people run searches on the music library, all three players
will stall.
I know the server is designed with single users in mind, but there must
be a way of increasing performance. Originally I ran the server on a
Windows box, but have found performance slightly better when running on
Mac OS X. The Mac box I have is only a dual-1Ghz G4.
What hardware and OS is recommended for best performance? I don't mind
spending some money on getting it right, but am reluctant to unless I
have a pretty good idea of what sort of improvement I can expect and
what hardware and OS is likely to perform best.
Unless you're transcoding on-the-fly, I'd look first at the hard drive
speed and RAM. I suspect since you're using a somewhat older Mac (early
2002, yes?), that the drive isn't all it can be. The stock 512MB of RAM
that came with the dual processor units should be enough, though PC133
isn't screaming fast.
Western Digital, and others, have IDE drives with integrated 8MB caches.
They're affordable and perform very well compared to a 2MB cache version.
Personally, I use Linux (Fedora Core 1) to host SlimServer and three
players. My library is pretty "medium" in size, 3,000 songs at ~11GB.
2.4GHz Celeron with 512MB RAM and one of the WD 8MB drives, cost me
about $300.
Jim
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