Thanks for explaining. I actually agree that dropping & recreating is sometimes a lot faster, and I didn’t think about Custom Tags + Mixed Tags, that of course explains it. Hopefully at least the unneeded "syncing" step can be avoided.
The long time it takes is mainly due to working on the disc: The -ibdata1- file in my Cache/MySQL is about 1.2GB, the MySQL temp file created while working about half of it (500-600MB). The OS disc in this system is "only" ATA/100 IDE, not SATA-II, and it appears that the OS*(WinXP+SP3) has not enough room for file system buffers to handle this efficiently with only 1GB RAM, since OS + SC + Plugins + MusicIP already eat up about 850MB of RAM when idle, about 130MB more when scanning. Apparently using Linux for this kind of application is much more efficient, for the same hardware setup I’d expect a reduction in time of about 1/3 to 1/2, from past experiences. I hope my long-promised next Linux box will arrive soon, so I can make a direct comparison. Did anyone yet compare the differences between using reiserfs, ext3, ext2 file systems (for the drive that is used by the SC cache and MySQL)? -- Moonbase Moonbase: 'The Problem Solver' (http://www.kaufen-ist-toll.de/moonbase) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Moonbase's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21594 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61775 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
