amey01;233716 Wrote: > OK - I'm the first to admit I'm running SlimServer on a low-end PC! > BUT > > I was running it on an old IBM Pentium II server under Windows 2000 > with SCSI disks and 128MB RAM. This system gave reasonable performance > but obviously it was lacking in some respects. > > So I upgraded to a junky little clone Pentium 4 with 256MB RAM. The > only difference is I've loaded Windows XP on this one. To my disdain, > SlimServer runs slower! It can take up to 30 seconds to start playing a > tune on the Squeezebox! > > The music source is a 500GB USB disk containing ALAC files. > > I'm assuming it is the amount of RAM - Windows XP requiring more, but > is this the case? What do I need to do to this PC to get at least the > performance of the Pentium II server? > > Thanks in advance.
My guess would be that there's an issue starting the decoder. ALAC isn't decoded natively on the SB3, so the delay in startup could be the time spent loading the decoder, opening the track and starting the decode process. Maybe under Win2k the decoder was running as a service? -=> Jim -- JimC "well, she wasn't all of that, but she sure was some of that." -- BKlaas' college buddy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JimC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39133 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
