It is a bit unclear from your posting: in your tests, were you using the web interface on the server (ie running firefox or whatever on the same machine as the files)?
That can slow things down noticably, especially on older machines -- there are a whole lot more "context changes" and, well, web browsers do suck. Not to mention Softsqueeze can be sorta sucky too (not that the program itself sucks, it is impressive what it does, but Sun's Java VM can be icky too). So what you end up with is the footprint of Mysql, Slimserver, Firefox/IE/Whatever and Java... bem 20812 0.0 13.6 318120 34968 pts/3 S 09:26 0:00 /home/bem/jre1.5.(etc) Yes, that means that Softsqueeze is, for reasons known only to Sun, using 318M of virtual memory. Firefox is, at the moment, using only 100M... Obviously these can have a pretty nasty impact on performance. The bad news is that there is very little Slim can do about Java sucking memory like a fat pig, or about all the mysterious memory leaks in Firefox... the Good News is that with a real squeezebox in hand, it doesn't really matter how sucky Java and Firefox are: just don't run them on the server. You may want to try (while muttering at the UPS guy: what did they do, decide to route your package 3000 miles away in a shortcut? I've seen that :/) running Slimserver on the G4 machine, but using Softsqueeze on the Mini. This will let you get a better feel for how a real SB would perform (assuming the Mini has enough oomph to make the browser and java bloat less of an issue). Good luck with UPS... at least most of the time they do reasonably well, but when they suck, they tend to -really- suck. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30145 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
