I used a PII/266 with 384M Ram running SUSE 9.3/KDE/Slimserver 6.1 and SoftSqueeze 2.0b9 with slighty different options to get the following results/CPU usage:
Note: I was running top in a windows which took some CPU itself. 1) Default SUSE 9.3 install with Java 1.4 (CPU Usage 100%) 2) Added mp3 plugin (CPU Usage about 80-85%) 3) Added Java 1.5 + mp3plugin (CPU Usage about 70%) 4) Ran SoftSqueeze from the command line with no GUI (CPU Usage about 50%) I still get an occasional skip in the music - usually only when I move something on the screen - but sometimes randomly. I see warning messages about buffer underun. Incidentally, I've changed the default init to startup without the GUI on SUSE (ie. init run level 3 instead of 5). I'll see if that makes a major difference. If you have any curiosity in the results let me know and I will post again. I am not sure if I will get the performance of this system to a level that I consider acceptable. To me, it is not acceptable for the music to ever skip. I'm planing to increase the buffer size used by SoftSqueeze and reboot into level 3 (no X Windows) to see how that works. If it does not work flawlessly - then I will have established a data point (PII/266) that is too low. Incidentally, I don't claim scientific precision with the results above - just rough estimates. All source files are 320Kbps MP3 files - not sure if that makes a difference. Kevin -- kkitts _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
