My Win 2000 server died the other day. I COULD fix it, but I have been looking for an excuse to move to a Mac Mini (Intel, dual core) for my server, so this seemed like a good time to do that. So, to test things out, I installed Slimserver on my Powerbook (1.25 GHz G4, 1.5 Gb). I had been using 6.5 on Windows, so I went with that for the Mac. Under Windows (2 GHz Athlon, 512 Meg), I wasn't having any real problems with dropouts. On my Powerbook, I have been having constant dropouts. Since both servers were wired, wireless reception should be identical. It will play a track or so, then it will just play a fraction of a second and then freeze for 10-30 secodns, then play another fraction, etc. During this time, response to the remote control is glacial, at best. (Oddly enough, even after power off, it continues to play for another stutter or two.) So, this brings up a few questions:
1) Is this NORMAL on a Mac? If not (hopefully), does anyone have any ideas what is going on here? Further system details: Streaming from 4/29 nightly of 6.5 (also tried 6/22, I think) to one SB2 and one SB3. Same problems on each. Internet radio works fine, but streaming AIFF (like WAV) files has the problem. OS X 10.4.6. The activity monitor shows perl pegged between 50-80% pretty consistently with NOTHING being streamed. It appears to have finished rescanning my library (6000 traks on external Firewire drive, though same problems with network monted Terastation), so I have no idea what it is doing; there isn't even any web server access. If I have other resource hungry apps running, the stuttering just fades away into no sound at all. I don't see anything unusual in the log. 2) How do you "downgrade" to an earlier version on the Mac? I tried just deleting the prefpane (in /Library), but when I tried installing an earlier 6.3, the server would never start. When I replaced that with the 6.5 install, it at least started again. I imagine there must be something else I have to delete, but I'm not knowledgeable enough about the Mac Slimserver to know what. 3) So, are the new Intel Mac Minis (with lots of memory) going to be signficantly more capable than my Powerbook for this? I would like to be able to use it as both a server and my desktop machine (web, email, Dreamweaver, no fancy graphics) without things bogging down. Any help/suggestions/opinions would be appreciated. Thanks. -- mmcguff ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mmcguff's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5278 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23492 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
