Meanwhile I've tested with an old USB memeory stick, which is way slower than my new USB HDD, too. But all I get for writing to the SB Touch via WiFi is 4MBit net transfer rate. No matter of protocol (scp or SMB) or target storage (USB or internal ramdisk => /tmp). Therefore, I'd guess the limitation is not driven by the storage back-end.
Since the CPU (a 500MHz ARM11 core) offers quite some processing power ( probably way more than required to handle 4MBit), I'd suspect the scheduler of the kernel to be pretty restrictive regarding "non-focus" functionality in favor of core task like serving and decoding audio data or UI. (Are we dealing with a real-time kernel ?) Throttling add-ons makes a lot of sense to ensure audio quailty. But the CPU time allocation shouldn't be static. All my tests regarding WiFi transfer rates are done in idle mode (no playing or streaming to other client). Full CPU power would be available ... How about stand-by mode ? Will it reduce clock speeds, etc ? (slow-down the CPU ?) Toby -- streumix ------------------------------------------------------------------------ streumix's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39267 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80707 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
