Thought I'd add another 6.5 nightly success story to the pile..

I was fixin' to whine about some 6.3.1 performance issues and instead
decided to see how much things have improved with 6.5..

So I tried a 6.5 nightly this week on my gentoo sytem. Initially I had
a heck of a time getting the YAML::Syck stuff to work. I merged new
versions of those packages but it didn't really help.  It kept barfing
when parsing config files.

I finally found this thread (for the second time - first time got me
interested) and using Bin/build-perl-modules.pl made all the
difference..

So far things are running smooth with no real new issues.  It kinda
looks like a number of nagging performance issues seem better (woot!).

CPU consumption while playing flacs seems much improved (not that it
was ever an issue at only about 2% in the past).

Time will tell but looking pretty good!

  FL



On 8/7/06, Jack Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I tried a 6.5 nightly out last night on my SuSE 10 box. The last time I had
attempted to run with the local modules and had some problems with
YAML::Syck -- this time, I just ran the Bin/build-perl-modules.pl and
renamed my /etc/slimserver.conf. I didn't upgrade firmware on any of my real
players or install any plugins, but I did use Softsqueeze and do a little
stress testing.

The system load is lower and the performance is markedly better than 6.3.1.
Fishbone works great and has lots of little usability improvements; I like
the gallery mode quite a lot. Nice work, folks! I'll probably switch my main
installation over and try the plugins when the next semi-official comes out.

--
"I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin,
So across the Western ocean I must wander" -- traditional
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