Even tho Im running Mandrake 9.1 currently, I will definitely agree with
clive in that FreeBSD is a pretty light OS and if you rebuild the kernel
to minimize it to exactly what you need, it can be extremely light and
fast (I run FreeBSD as my firewall,VPN,web proxy box on a 200Mhz system
just fine belive it or not). I will probably switch to FreeBSD once I
upgrade my Linux box. My Mandrake Linux server runs Slimserver,
PostgreSQL and BIND9 so those 3 together hinder it quite a bit,
especially during rescans.
jess
cliveb wrote:
For what it's worth, here are my experiences.
Most people seem to be thinking about running either Windows XP/2000 or
Linux. It seems to me that the lightest footprint of them all is
FreeBSD. I'm running Slimserver on a low-powered FreeBSD system:
500MHz AMD K6/2 CPU
196MB PC66 SDRAM
400GB Seagate Barracuda drive.
This is dedicated purely to Slimserver. RAM doesn't seem to be a
problem. Of the 196MB on the system, only about 50MB is actually in
use.
My music library is exclusively FLAC, currently about 10,000 songs. I'm
using just one SB2, wired on a 100Mbs LAN. Performance of the web
interface is OK but not "snappy". Using the SB2 via the remote is
pretty good. Bringing up "Browse Artists" takes about 1 or 2 seconds.
Before building this FreeBSD system, I initially ran Slimserver on the
household Win2000 server (a 533MHz mini-ITX box with 256MB PC133
SDRAM). It was definitely much less responsive, but still not that bad.
And considering the server was also running email/printers/web
server/Oracle database, I think it shows that Slimserver doesn't need
lots of horsepower.
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