roydy;163631 Wrote: > I've been happily using slimp3 for a long time (rev 1.3 firmware), > however my recent upgrade to slimserver 6.5 has caused me all sorts of > problems with skipping at the beginning of almost every song. The > problem was not the network: my slimp3 runs over a 100Mb/s wired > connection and the network is mostly idle. > > After some digging, I found the problem is some sort of bad interaction > between slim and mysql. Slimserver has run for a long time on the same > machine, a slow 1.6GHz PC with 768M of RAM. With ver6.5, the start of > every song caused the activity of slim (~70%) and mysqld (~20%) to peg > the machine load at 100% long enough to cause the slimp3 buffer to run > empty. > > Its a lousy problem because after a few painful seconds of skipping, > the machine load went back down to 10% or less and the rest of the song > would play fine. > > After a LOT of fiddling, I found an easy fix: remove ver6.5 and go back > to ver6.2.1 which I still had lying around. Maybe sqlite isn't as good > as mysql in some way, but it is good enough and now all is well again. > > > I read the forums for a few hours and didn't see this specific problem > with 6.5 discussed. Was it resolved in an overnight update? I'm asking > because otherwise I won't be upgrading until I eventually upgrade my > server machine ... and I was I hoping that was a long time away. What kind of 1.6GHz processor is that, and which operating system?
It's actually been discussed quite a bit. SlimServer 6.5 requires more resources to run, primarily because of the switch to MySQL. You might try the 6.5.1 nightlies, as many problems, including some affecting performance, have been fixed since 6.5 came out. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30773 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
