adamslim wrote: > I would like to speed up the web interface and database queries, and > wondered if moving some files to a ramdisk would help. (The machine is > quite fast - Core2Duo, 4GB RAM, used only as a server and on 24/7).
RAMdisk is rarely useful on modern OS, such as Ubuntu 9.10. Using one requires that you manually decide what files need to be in memory, and you make the general memory available smaller. Its nearly always better to let the operating system do the management. > Again, clear instructions on how would be nice :) Its not clear what you think of as "slow" and what would need speeding up. Before you change anything, you should try to define what is slow and why, so you can make meaningful changes. How many albums do you have? how many songs? What do you think is slow? What formats? are you using iTunes? I've been running my SBS on a Debian server for ages (Debian is the father of Ubuntu). Its plenty fine for me. Sure, scanning takes a while, but I don't do it very often, so I don't care. The web UI is fast, as is the response on my Controller and my Touch. There is really no "speed" associated with playing music to a player, be it Classic, Transporter, Boom, etc. Rarely is the speed of the server an issue when you are streaming bits. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
