funkstar Wrote: 
> i think most of it is down to the 600mhz EPIA you are using as a server
> to be honest, there is only so much a box like that can do.

I have also posted a new thread about web performance. I'm getting
considerable delays with my 60,000 tracks held on an internal IDE drive
in a 1Ghz Epia based system with 500MB of RAM (Fedora Linux).

I'm afraid I really can't understand why 600Mhz with 1GB of RAM should
be seen as such a limiting factor (especially if you consider Klaus has
tried it with Fedora, so the OS shouldn't be taking too much power.

I have another media server. It is a Linksys NSLU2 running
"Twonkyvision" (serving Music, Video & Photos). It runs a cut down
Linux on a custom processor running at 266Mhz with a tiny 32MB of RAM.
It also has a web interface that will search & list music by
Genre/Album/Artist etc. I run this with exactly the same set of music
files (on an external USB disk, so a slower connection). The thing that
amazes me is that the web front end to this returns a list of
tracks/albums/ etc almost instantaneously, running on a box with a
fraction of the power of Klaus' or my servers. I realise that
SlimServer does many things that Twonky doesn't, but when all I'm
asking it to do is list some songs on a web page (nothing else running
- not even any Squeezeboxes), what reason can there be for it taking so
long (between 80 & 200 seconds to complete "All Songs")?

I bought my Epia server specificaly to run SlimServer. As it was such a
massive step up in performance from that used for my previous media
server, I felt sure that I'd get excellent response times......

I can't help feeling there must be room for some fairly major
performance tweaks rather than just having to throw more processing
power at the problem.


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