Thank a lot I apply your recommendation, and now my NAS is more faster. In the same time, my squeezetouch never lost the connection and so, I can make up with my favorite playlist and no more with this stupid Buzzer Regards Eric
praganj;587690 Wrote: > Hi Henrik, > > If your NAS is running with Linux, than you can try to make it faster: > > 1. Try to turn off all services on you NAS which you do not need - like > samba, upnp server ot whatever. Try to run only the SBS. > > 2. After restarting your NAS it is taking sometimes few minutes to > complete all tasks. > > 3. Check the load on your nas when running - you have to logon with > telnet, or ssh on it and start the "top" programm, than you will see > what is going on. > > 4. Optimize the linux filesytem - if your nas is using ext3 or ext4 fs, > than you can improve very much the read performance (SBT need more > performance from nas than SB3) by setting one additional mount option > to your filesystem . You can try the mount options "noatime" and > "commit=100". > > noatime means that in the header of he file the last access time is not > writen, you don't need it, only few exotic mail programs need it. > > commit=100 - usually linux is writing changes in the fs every 5 > seconds, than after crash you are loosing max. 5s of changes. With > commit=100 you can loose max. 100s of newly written data, but for this > application is it not so important. > > But do it only then, when you know how to do it. "noatime" is the most > important, it can make your nas really much faster - with noatime and > commit=100 my nas qnap 119 read performance is 90-95% faster. > > You can try other settings, read this: > > http://blog.smartlogicsolutions.com/2009/06/04/mount-options-to-improve-ext4-file-system-performance/ > > Be carefully and make first a backup ! > > I also switched from SB3 to SBT few weeks ago, and first after > optimizing my nas all connection problems dissapeared and browsing > through music folders is much faster now. > > I still prefer the fast UI of SB3 and i am missing beautyfull green > vu-meters, but sound quality of SBT is much better and the quality of > SPDIF output jumped my DAC to another level. > > When you will solve your connection problems, than try this: > http://soundcheck-audio.blogspot.com/p/squeezebox-touch-great-base-for-network.html > > :) -- esa Synology DiskStation (DSM Package Management) - FR - utf8 Synology DS107+ MARVELL_88F5281 Squeeze center Version : 7.5.0 - r30464 Version Perl : 5.8.6 Version MySQL : 5.1.34 Squeezebox Touch : 7.5.1-r9009 Dynamic Playlists (v2.8.3)+ Playlist Generator (v1.1)+Song Info (v1.0.2999)+ Song Lyrics (v1.0.2997)+SQL Playlist (v2.5.3224)+ TrackStat (v2.10.3031) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ esa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9362 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83070 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
