snarlydwarf;158395 Wrote: > 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.
You seem to think pretty much everything sucks! Whilst I reserve judgment on UPS, and Firefox has been behaving itself for me lately, I take issue with your anti-Java rant. Having a JVM running certainly adds a memory-usage overhead to your app, it's typically around 10-20mb. Java apps can leak memory just as easily as anything else, but I notice you don't blame gcc for Firefox's memory problems :) -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30145 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
