Andrew L. Weekes;144247 Wrote: 
> I beg to differ.
> 
> On my Slimserver box, which is a lowly PIII 600, the performance
> improvement from migrating the database to MySQL was DRAMATIC.
> 
> Despite the extra processes, memory etc, it was a very obvious
> improvement in speed of response. That was under SS 6.3, so the only
> variable was the database itself, the SS code was unchanged.

Funny, I came here to make a post asking if there's any way to improve
performance on low-end machines.  Hitting "play" on a directory with a
few hundred files in it (say I want to listen to a shuffle of all my
alternative music, or whatever) is absolutely glacial on my even more
lowly 600MHz VIA Eden CPU (vaguely comparable to a 350MHz original
Celeron, or so I've heard).  The Squeezebox freezes hard for like 15
seconds until SlimServer can get itself together to build the playlist
and start servicing UI requests again.

I really hope future releases will address low-end performance, as I
suspect that a fair portion of users are running SlimServer on NAS type
boxes that aren't exactly powerhouses.  And those users tend to be the
type that submit bug reports and patches and get things improved, I'd
wager.


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