slartibartfast wrote: > I think I know the reason my "new and changed scan" uses so much memory. > I have deliberately not analysed all my live tracks but the "new and > changed" scan tries to import these tracks (29000 of them). These tracks > have already been scanned during the "clear library and rescan" so why > does the scanner insist on scanning them every time I run it?
I don't think so, the scanner scans the files in the directories you specified in LMS. the LMS MusicIp importation during the scan only imports what MusicIp has in its database that is new (to LMS), not what has not been analysed. It means the first time it will import the whole MusicIP db and the next time only the new tracks. Then, the first importation can be long, but don't think that could use so much more memory than the second one. Remember that MusicIp is an old software, at this time PCs had 256k or 512k of memory to run windows and everything, and it was good enough. Even with the qemu layer, this can't be. And I don't believe this story about the required swap size. I have "only" 19k tracks, with 16k mixable and I completely removed the swap because I noticed that I have enough memory for LMS and MusicIp run comfortably. A swap space on a 'SD card is not very efficient' (http://raspberrypimaker.com/adding-swap-to-the-raspberrypi/), it slows the system and is not usually necessary. free memory : Code: -------------------- $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 923 838 84 23 55 386 -/+ buffers/cache: 395 527 Swap: 0 0 0 -------------------- See ? no swap, only 395M memory used I did a full new scan from scratch "erase library and rescan" (don't know the name in english), here is the output (sorry, it's in french) : It ended normally . you can see : 23600 17035 tracks 16881 tracks imported from MusicIp I used htop during the scan to follow the used memory , it appears on bar charts. The green part is the used memory. Here is a screen copy during MusicIp importation. 23599 It's slow, but it doesn't use so much memory. free memory after scan : Code: -------------------- $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 923 670 252 23 18 349 -/+ buffers/cache: 302 621 Swap: 0 0 0 -------------------- So maybe you have a problem with memory used, but it's not only MusicIp the problem, and that wouldn't explain why MusicIp takes 2 minutes to start. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: ScanMusicp1.jpeg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=23600| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ LMS 7.9.0 on Linux Mageia 5 and RPI 3 1 SB3, 2 radio, 1 touch Plugins : Trackstat, Smartmix, MusicIP, ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Antoniop's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106958 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
