staresy wrote: > Hi, > I've noticed something slightly strange with my setup. > > I run LMS8 on a win10 server, I also have Squeezelite-X on the same > machine for occasional control/config etc, although essentially the > server runs as headless with minimal intervention. > > I noticed that the performance of the server was slower than normal and, > upon investigation, I found that Squeezelite-X was running as a > background task and was hogging ~65% of the CPU time, meaning LMS was > slow to respond and often timed out on commands. > > I found that if I run Squeezelite-X on the server, and then close it (by > closing the window with the X in the top RH corner), it doesn't properly > close but instead runs as a background process hogging resource. New > instances of of squeezelite-X fail to run until I use task-manager to > end the background process. > > This only seems to happen when running SLX on the same machine and LMS, > ie. if I run SLX on a different PC and connect to my LMS server, SLX can > be stopped/started etc with no problem. Has anyone else seen this? > > The work around is to set SLX to run as a background task in the > settings, closing then sends it to the background properly and it > consumes next to no resource. This works really well as SLX is instantly > available. > > So, not an important issue as the workaround works fine, but I thought > I'd raise it here for visibility in case other users have a similar > set-up and may un knowingly have SLX running as a "hogging" background > process. > > Meanwhile, thanks for all the efforts on producing SLX, when combined > with Material, it's a very versatile and slick user interface.
If you do not have SLX configured to run in background, then when you Close it, it should terminate completely. I don't know why or how having LMS on same machine causes this, I'll need to set up such a system and see what I find out. Greg Dawson Squeezelite-X ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rgdawson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65236 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108550 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
