I have been following this thread very carefully, because I was very interested in the Touch abilities to read 24/96 files and to go without a PC (by using Tiny SC), and unfortunately, I am experiencing serious problems with that configuration, when using an external HDD (but not when using a USB stick).
Here are my findings (when using Tiny SC to read 24/96 files) : 1) The configuration with constant rebuffering problems (so completely unusable) is when connecting my LaCie d2 quadra 1.5 To HDD, which is FAT32 formatted, and which contains for the moment 1200 albums (approximately 16000 flac files, 400 GB used). Here is an extract of the top command results in that configuration : Mem: 123516K used, 2308K free, 0K shrd, 84K buff, 36144K cached CPU: 59% usr 4% sys 33% nic 0% idle 0% io 1% irq 0% sirq Load average: 1.91 1.61 1.13 2/83 2543 PID PPID USER STAT VSZ %MEM %CPU COMMAND 696 1 root S 36420 29% 49% /usr/bin/jive 840 1 root R N 54932 44% 25% /usr/bin/perl /usr/squeezecenter/slimserver.pl --charset utf8 --noweb --notranscoding --nosb1slimp3sync --nostatistics --noinfolog --nodebuglog --log 716 696 root S 7040 6% 11% jive_alsa -d default -c default -b 20000 -p 2 -s 24 -f 1 9 2 root SW< 0 0% 5% [sirq-tasklet/0] 715 696 root S 7104 6% 4% jive_alsa -d plughw:2,0 -b 20000 -p 2 -s 16 -f 2 742 2 root SW< 0 0% 1% [usb-storage] 2214 2213 root R 2724 2% 1% top 49 2 root SW< 0 0% 1% [IRQ-34] 2210 639 root S 2528 2% 0% dropbear -i 5 2 root SW< 0 0% 0% [sirq-timer/0] 7 2 root SW< 0 0% 0% [sirq-net-rx/0] 2) I then tried another configuration, by using a 4GB USB stick (containing of course only a couple of albums...), with the same problematic 24/96 files, and I had absolutely no problem when reading those files (apart from the very beginning of the first track). Here is an extract of the top command results in that configuration : Mem: 123528K used, 2296K free, 0K shrd, 200K buff, 43900K cached CPU: 56% usr 7% sys 0% nic 29% idle 5% io 0% irq 0% sirq Load average: 1.41 1.27 0.66 2/83 1053 PID PPID USER STAT VSZ %MEM %CPU COMMAND 689 1 root S 35500 28% 40% /usr/bin/jive 716 689 root S 7040 6% 10% jive_alsa -d default -c default -b 20000 -p 2 -s 24 -f 1 715 689 root S 7104 6% 4% jive_alsa -d plughw:2,0 -b 20000 -p 2 -s 16 -f 2 9 2 root SW< 0 0% 4% [sirq-tasklet/0] 952 1 root S N 49088 39% 4% /usr/bin/perl /usr/squeezecenter/slimserver.pl --charset utf8 --noweb --notranscoding --nosb1slimp3sync - 825 2 root SW< 0 0% 1% [usb-storage] 49 2 root SW< 0 0% 1% [IRQ-34] 816 815 root R 2724 2% 1% top 812 639 root S 2528 2% 0% dropbear -i 5 2 root SW< 0 0% 0% [sirq-timer/0] 7 2 root SW< 0 0% 0% [sirq-net-rx/0] So, I would like to find where is the problem when reading the files from my 1.5 To HDD. Is it the amount of files ? Is the HDD not fast enough (it is a recent 7200 rpm model) ? Should I change my USB cable (It is a standard 1.5 m cable) ? I must add that I have no problem when reading these 24/96 files from a similar 1.5 To HDD formatted in HFS+, with the external server running on a Mac (in a wired configuration). When examining the traces of the top command, I noticed that the perl slimserver.pl command was using a great memory amount, and a great CPU amount in the problematic configuration. When reading the others posts in this thread, I saw mentions of the jive command, but not of this perl command. Could that be the problem ? Again, any help would be greatly appreciated... -- rotho ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rotho's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33493 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77080 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
