The mystery of the slow slimserver "music folder" response and missing music has been solved. Right now I'm trying to decide just how embarrassed I should be.
The computer I used was a hard drive crashed unit from my office. (The PC belonged to me personally so I brought home the old box when I upgraded there.) I replaced the hard drive and installed FC6 as noted earlier. Then I added on my 300GB music drive. The catch is the motherboard only supports a smaller 137GB capacity drive. The deceptive part is things actually worked pretty good with just the slow response time and the odd directory (Handel, etc.) that showed up empty. Only at a reinstall of the OS did I notice the BIOS message zip by. That size limitation unfortunately does not show in the BIOS setup screen, only in the fast-disappearing boot screen. Unfortunately, while there was a BIOS upgrade for the motherboard available, the changes to the BIOS did not include support for drives larger than 137GB. So yesterday I bought a new motherboard and popped that in the case. We are now down to a more normal tenish seconds to bring up the music folder. Still not zippy but tolerable at four times faster than it was. The missing music was a bit more complex. Using the web-based Slimserver option to clear and rescan the database still left poor Handel missing. I guess the corrupted database info was surviving that process. What fixed that was uninstalling Slimserver and then actually deleting the entire /usr/local/slimserver directory. I then reinstalled the Slimserver RPM and rescanned the library. All is right with the world now. Thanks to all who helped with suggestions. They were much appreciated. (As a last note, the noatime option seems to improve the music folder listing speed by about 10% to 15% - certainly a worthy improvement.) -- mlsstl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32295 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
