> I have been using a PowerMac G4 since forever as my server and the > interface was slow, but vaguely usable. All other web pages are snappy > and render quickly. > > With SqueezeCenter, it's completely unusable, taking over a minute to > load the initial screen, on Firefox or Safari. As soon as I run any > other app, music starts to drop out.
Ok, let's get this sorted out: we get complaints about SC being slow. But in fact we're talking about two potential sources of slowness here: client (the machine running the browser) and server (machine running SC), though often they are the same. As many are using old or underpowered hardware as their servers (think NAS...), but rather up to date machines on the client side running their browsers, we moved a bit of the load from the server to the client side in the new Default skin. Many of the web page updates that were rendered on the server side in SS are now done in the browser, using JS (player control panel). Thus it can run considerably faster on a NAS & powerful client installation, as the NAS doesn't have to work that hard any more. But it can get slower on a slow client, or if the client is run on the same machine as the server. > My guess is that the SqueezeCenter/Browser combination uses more memory > than previous versions, especially when rendering the new interface. If Memory and CPU cycles. > you are on older hardware with a smaller RAM footprint, then a lot more > swapping goes on. I'm seeing more of a CPU load problem than RAM. Heavy JS loaded we interfaces only have come up in recent years. Many of the browsers out there aren't optimised for JS execution speed. > The only way I can use it now is if I ensure that no other apps are > running (apart from system apps), but even then the web interface is > still painful in the extreme. But only in Default skin? Classic et al. should be as fine as always. Michael _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
