Network test is very simple and was written without any support from the client. All it does is send repeated screen updates to the player and the appropriate rate over the slimproto tcp session.
The main difference between nettest and streaming actual data is the size of the buffers being written to the tcp socket - in the case of windows I think flac streaming would be 16 or 32K, but here its about 1K. So it needs to do stuff 16 or 32 times more often. If you suspect stuttering is due to lack of cpu, then ignore nettest and look at the other portion of the diagnosis page as it can help to see if anything in the server is taking too long. On my 1.4G single processor llnux box nettest hardly causes a cpu load, so I am supprised about its impact on windows in this case. -- Triode ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38571 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
