Lost Viking wrote:
It takes ~45secs from clicking to diplaying the result page. Is this normal? Will it be as slow using the Transporter (once I have it in my hands, it is still on its way..)?? *shudder*
No, that's definitely not normal. IMHO, the Slimserver web interface could be a lot faster, but here it's still only a couple of seconds at most.
One of the recent Slimserver updates apparently added a lot of internal threading. That noticeably sped up the web interface. Make sure you're running recent code.
Let me add a hearty amen to the other suggestions to run Slimserver on Linux, not Windows. Windows is a terrible server OS. Scratch that, Windows is a terrible OS, period. Jettisoning all that virus scanning cruft is just one of many reasons to dump it.
Here are some other suggestions to speed up a file server. First, avoid external USB hard drives. In my experience, a USB 2.0 external drive is less than half as fast as an internal drive.
Second, if you have the cabinet space and the budget, consider RAID. Without RAID (or a current backup), a failed drive is a major disaster. (Do you really want to re-rip a thousand CDs?) With RAID, a failed drive is just a minor nuisance. RAID can also speed up read performance quite noticeably. Linux has a very nice software RAID subsystem that avoids having to spend money on hardware RAID controllers.
--Phil _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
