DrJ wrote: > Frankly, I'm amazed at the amount of horsepower that some people use. > Saturating a 50 or 100Mb Ethernet takes almost nothing (say, a 200MHz > PII).
It is hard to find a computer with as little power as a P2 200. > As far as I can tell, there is only a php server and maybe a > database (or is the filesystem used?) in addition, which shouldn't take > that much unless one has a huge collection. Its Perl, and there is a lightweight Database. Part of why people use fairly fast CPUs is that that is what is laying arround. I used a P3-500 for a long time, it was fine. When it died, I used a AMD 2200 that I had laying around. > What is a reasonable minimum for a two or three users? FWIW, I was > considering running it on an old Sun Ultra 5 with about 256 to 512MB > RAM on FreeBSD with enough disk space off an auxilliary controller. Is > there any reason this should not work adequately? If you have it, try it and see. Many folks are impatient about things like browser refresh times and it takes a long time to scan a few hundred gigabytes of songs because the Perl is not optomized for it, and it happens at night so most people don't care. I forget how Sparc memory maps to Intel memory, but my old P3-500 had under 400 MB of ram. Transcoding files from weird formats to PCM, Flac or MP3 is fairly CPU intensive, but if your tunes are in a good format, then it is just a mindless read block push out NIC until done loop. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
