gerph;240754 Wrote: > Uh... For comparison, I'm using a 500 MHz PIII in linux and, looking at > the 'top' output which tells me processor usage, it's hasn't used more > than 4% of the processor time whilst playing a track. mysqld sometimes > takes a bit longer to do some of the searches, but then that's not a > big deal. If using the web interface is a bigger deal then more > processor speed is better. > > Other examples: > Selecting the Artists menu and it opening the list of artists: 23% > processor time slimserver, 24% mysqld, time to open the menu about 1 > second. > > Holding down the 'down' button to scroll through the artists > continuously: about 18% processor time pretty steady. > > Internet radio, Slim Picks, Alt|Radio DavidByrne.com: never more than > 1.5% processor time. > > I'd say based on my figures that if your 1.8G machine is using 20% of > its processor time doing stuff for slimserver then that plugin is > seriously sapping the life from the system, because just playing music > should be using ~1.3% of the processor time for slimserver (your > machine is > 3x faster, so 1/3 of 4% processor time). > > (all this said, I'm intending on getting a new server which far > outstrips the current one shortly...)
The plugin is convolving filters in real time, and it's in c# rather than c (not sure how badly that hurts, really). It's actually doing something more computationally complex than anything slimserver does directly AFAIK. -- totoro Perl is the Ron Jeremy of programming languages. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ totoro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40006 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
