Unfortunately this laptop is not a high spec machine. It only has a 500ghz P3 processor and O.5gb Ram. Is this considered to be too underpowered to run as a dedicated SS machine? What is SlimDevices minimum spec for XP running SS? I've had a good look around but not found any recommendations.
As this is a laptop do you have power management features enabled - if the disk spins down it will probably add several seconds to the responsiveness of the UI when it starts up again.
I run on a 500MHz P3 OK under linux with good performance. I do find linux give better performance per MHz than Windows though. When I test using a windows box with a claimed 4 times greater performance I don't see that over the linux platform. [in some cases because of the other tasks the windows box does it can be slower]
You may want to try 6.2 as it getting close to release and hence nightlies are relatively stable. It includes quite a few updates over 6.1.1 including improved speed for browsing the music folder (not the specific problem you identified) There's also a trial web page which tries to monitor network and server performance ["Network and Server Health" in the help section] - this can give an indication of performance problems and maintains a log of a few key performance metrics of the server process itself. I'd be interested to see what it is showing when your server is running slow.
Adrian
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