Any other Mac OS users running Squeezeslave? I'm running it under Mac OS 10.6.2 and launching it automatically via launchd on my MacBook Pro (unibody 2.9GHz). When it's working, it's working well.
But. It causes the machine to take an inordinate amount of time to go to sleep, even when it's just idle (off). About an order of magnitude more time in fact. Issuing the sleep command while not running Squeezeslave takes about 1 second for the machine to blank its display. With Squeezeslave running but "off" from the Web UI (0% CPU utilization) it takes 10 or more seconds. The reason I'm running (and interested in) Squeezeslave is because of its low CPU utilization and because it doesn't have nor does it need a UI. When idle it takes no CPU time at all. It can also ignore local volume. This enables me to play music on my work notebook controlled solely through the web UI with volume controlled by the Mac itself. Squeezeplay by comparison has UI that I don't need to use, including taking up a spot in the dock. It also takes crazy CPU cycles for a music player. Even when it's "off" or idle (paused) it's still taking crazy cycles upwards of 10%. iTunes takes a fraction of that while playing as another comparison. It's not a deal breaker, but it's getting a bit annoying closing the notebook and not having the machine go to sleep right away. Or issuing a sleep command and having the screen stay lit up for 10 to 15 seconds. Another interesting thing is that you must set up your property list for launchd with keepalive on. Otherwise when you come back from sleep, the webUI won't see Squeezeslave at all. The only other niggle I have is that the webUI always identifies it as "Squeezeslave 2" - I've changed this in the webUI settings, but it's seemed to revert back after some time. Maybe when coming back from sleep... It would be nice to supply the display name as an argument the same way we can already supply the MAC address. Great work and thanks for keeping this project alive! -- MelonMonkey Bruno *'Twisted Melon - External Wired IR Blasters' (http://twistedmelon.com/shop/?show=bug1)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MelonMonkey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8466 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63966 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
