[slim] Re: Linkstation Rescan?
Marc, Heres the output from the top command, when running a rescan. I would really like to see some benchmarks results from your tests mike. Maybe as theres a lot of people out there running linkstations and slimserver, slimdevices might be able to write a cut down version of slimserver for the linkstation. Mem: 58580K used, 3264K free, 0K shrd, 1304K buff, 47892K cached Load average: 0.37, 0.31, 0.19 (State: S=sleeping R=running, W=waiting) PID USER STATUS RSS PPID %CPU %MEM COMMAND 274 root R 33M 1 99.2 56.2 slimserver.pl 435 root R 544 434 0.5 0.8 top 15 root SW 0 1 0.1 0.0 kjournald 247 root S 592 1 0.0 0.9 nmbd 220 root S 388 1 0.0 0.6 thttpd 245 root S 348 1 0.0 0.5 smbd 434 root S 324 185 0.0 0.5 bash 231 root S 232 1 0.0 0.3 cron 197 root S 220 1 0.0 0.3 syslogd 1 root S 208 0 0.0 0.3 init 244 root S 208 1 0.0 0.3 atalkd 354 root S N 204 1 0.0 0.3 ls_servd 203 root S 184 1 0.0 0.2 ekpd 206 root S 184 204 0.0 0.2 ekpd 204 root S 184 203 0.0 0.2 ekpd 205 root S 184 204 0.0 0.2 ekpd 263 root S 172 1 0.0 0.2 mc_ctld 272 root S 168 1 0.0 0.2 afpd 270 root S 164 1 0.0 0.2 papd Thanks -- jackmanfred ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Linkstation Rescan?
Marc D.Field Wrote: > maybe 4x as much music takes *far* more than 4x as much time to scan... It's possible. I went over the MP3 tag scanning code and, while some of it may be "improveable", the performance numbers weren't all that bad. Dean wrote me that he thinks the "scanning performance problem" isn't really in the scanning code but may be in the database back end. Depending on how the database works (and I don't know anything about that part of the code), it could be considerably less than linear. I said I would benchmark whether it's the database or the MP3 scanning code that's so slow in a week or so. Unfortunately, that's probably going to take another week longer than I thought. (long story short, my girlfriend's spa is taking longer to open than we thought, and I have to help out). -- Michaelwagner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Linkstation Rescan?
Michaelwagner Wrote: > This is certainly true in 6.1. Haven't tried the new improved 6.2 yet. > But I'm pretty sure this is a bug, not "working as designed". I'm not talking about picking up changes during a rescan. I'm sure the intent there is to recognize all changes to files (including deleted files and directories) and update the database accordingly. I was referring to picking up changes while using Browse Music Folder. I know the goal was to make BMF as fast as possible, so I'm not certain if it's intended to pick up on changes, or if it's only supposed to catalog new content. -- JJZolx Jim ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Linkstation Rescan?
JJZolx Wrote: > Another limitation is that SlimServer may not (or is it definitely will > not?) pick up changes that you've made to files which have already been > cataloged. This is certainly true in 6.1. Haven't tried the new improved 6.2 yet. But I'm pretty sure this is a bug, not "working as designed". -- Michaelwagner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Linkstation Rescan?
jackmanfred Wrote: > > I would like to know if there is any point in using the rescan button > as it seems to take ages to complete, like a week! Is this normal? and > you seem to get the same view if you use the browse music folder. Using browse music folder to pick up new music should work. There are some differences from doing a full rescan that you might want to be aware of. Such as not picking up artwork. See: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2116 It's probably the fastest way for you to get SlimServer to pick up newly added albums. Just navigate down to the album folder and SlimServer will add all the tracks in the folder to its database. As long as you don't regularly add dozens of albums at a time, it beats waiting a week for a rescan. Another limitation is that SlimServer may not (or is it definitely will not?) pick up changes that you've made to files which have already been cataloged. For instance, if you were to change tags in a file, such as changing the artist or album name. I've always thought it would be good to have the ability to rescan just a portion of the music folder tree. You might consider the advantages to running a dedicated machine for SlimServer. I suppose the Linkstation is attractive in that it's low powered and probably quiet, but if my SlimServer took a week to rescan my music collection, I'd dump it. I can't imagine browsing is any too quick on a device like that either. -- JJZolx Jim ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Linkstation Rescan?
ultra238a Wrote: > > Your box is using a 200/266Mhz CPU with 64Mb of memory - it ain't going > to get any quicker. Just set it to run over night from the web front end > at say 2:00am then you won't notice it. You will if it takes a _week_. -- JJZolx Jim ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Linkstation Rescan?
Your box is using a 200/266Mhz CPU with 64Mb of memory - it ain't going to get any quicker. Just set it to run over night from the web front end at say 2:00am then you won't notice it. Paul Progressive Consumer Electronics -- ultra238a ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
