JJZolx;158398 Wrote: 
> You can easily test the web interface and scanner without any clients,
> either Squeezebox or software, connected to the server.  I have several
> instances of SlimServer running on my network like this.

Yes, but the OP said he was using Softsqueeze while waiting for UPS to
actually deliver his Squeezebox (and I gather they sent it the long
way.. slow enough that Slim actually shipped another one that will
hopefully go more directly) and a web browser with album art
displayed.

Java sucks, Firefox sucks (okay, so it sucks less than IE most of the
time, but it still sucks :P) and tossing them onto the same machine as
the actual server can be misleading performance-wise, especially since
once the Squeezebox shows up the footprint of Softsqueeze and the JRE
is usually irrelevant.

My recommendation as something to do while waiting for UPS is to put it
back on his slow machine, but use the faster Mini as the web
browser/softsqueeze part and see if that performance is better.

If it is, then he can use his g4 as a server (which is what he wants to
do) and not worry about load.  Effectively isolating the suckiness of
JRE and browser from the server.

(And, yeah, all software sucks.  So does hardware, but it usually has
the dignity to catch fire and self-destruct when it sucks. :P)


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