pfarrell Wrote: > DrJ wrote: > > pfarrell Wrote: > >>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." > > Right not a lot of twelve way joins. > > > >>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. > > I was actually thinking that some RISC processors, the Dec Alpha for > one > in particular, end up needing a lot more memory to do a given task > than an Intel chip would, in part because the RISC vs CISC theory > and part because the Alpha was 64 bits at a time that lots of PCs were > will using 16 bit addressing. > > >>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. > > A lot of people are in love with iTunes and Windows weird closed > formats, so their SlimServer has to spend a lot of time > converting (waste a lot of time in some people's minds) > > > I may well give it a shot. I figure I can put together this server, > > with 300GB or so of storage, for about $100. > > Clearly not with SCSI disks, or do you have them laying around as > well? > > Clearly try it and see if it runs or walks or is too slow for > your tastes. > > -- > Pat > http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html
The Ultra 5 uses IDE, so he really could do this on the cheap. And despite how impotent the Ultra 5 is (no disrespect meant, I've been a SPARC user since SPARC-1) it would be enough for running slimserver as long as he didn't do too much simultaneous real-time transcoding. -- rudholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rudholm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2980 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22854 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
