One important piece of data to add: slimserver-2005_05_30-1
Haven't bothered to update since it does what I need 99% of the time. On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 22:46 +0100, Mark Bennett wrote: > Intrigued by this thread I wanted to test my system to see > what happens. First of all, I'll make no bones - it's a > fairly high-end system, so I wasn't expecting any problems: > > Intel P4, 3.4GHz with Hyper-threading > 1 GB 400MHZ dual-channel DDR > OS/home on a Western Digital 200GB PATA drive with 8MB Cache > Music on a Western Digital 250GB PATA drive with 8MB Cache > Linux (Fedora Core 2 SMP kernel) > > (Don't ask how it got to be such a high-end system for > Slimserver, it just did.) > > I loaded it up with as much as I reasonably can (slimserver wise): > > 2 * wireless SB2's (Flac to Flac) > 1 * wireless SB1 (Flac to Wav) > 1 Softsqueeze (on server) (Flac to Flac) > 1 WinAmp (Flac to MP3) > 1 PocketPC PDA (Flac to MP3) > > All players were playing different music. > > With all of this going on, the SS and decoding/re-encoding were > struggling to break 10% CPU load. No dropouts, excellent > performance. > > To load it further I did a wipe and rescan, which put the overall > CPU performance up to effectively 100%. The only interruption from > sound on any of the players was when they tried to move to > the next track and couldn't find the database entry anymore. > Restarting worked fine even during the scan. All the players and > the web interface also remained responsive. > > OK, I only have a small library (~6,500 Flac songs) but scanning > took roughly 15 minutes for the lot. > > (BTW the machine was also running a mail client which was regularly > checking for email and Mozilla.) > > Throwing hardware at the problem does help, even if it isn't > necessary. > > -- "The biggest problem encountered while trying to design a system that was completely foolproof, was, that people tended to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
