pfarrell Wrote: > > It is hard to find a computer with as little power as a P2 200. >
That's my point. > > Its Perl, and there is a lightweight Database. > My mistake. Still, unless the perl script is terribly involved, this too should not add a lot of overhead. The database should almost be flat, without too much relational "stuff." > > 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. > The Ultra 5 (at least the 400MHz variety) is roughly equal to a P3-500. It can map a full 64 bit address space, but for practical purposes, 1GB is about all you can do with an Ultra 5. If you mean how efficiently memory is used, that's more involved than we can deal with here. Call it the same for present purposes. Like I said, saturating a 100Mb Ethernet line is not hard. I run much of my admittedly small company off a slower Sparc server, and that includes Samba/print serving, IMAP services, and serving large static web pages by Apache. The server is plenty good enough. > > 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. > That's what was my perception. You can encode once on whatever machine you want, transfer, and then the serving should not take that much. I may well give it a shot. I figure I can put together this server, with 300GB or so of storage, for about $100. DrJ -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html -- DrJ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DrJ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22854 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
