See inline responses. Sorry about the formatting! Thomas8675309 wrote: > That's because it's a hyperthreaded processor: > http://ark.intel.com/products/36331/Intel-Atom-Processor-N270-%28512K-Cache-1_60-GHz-533-MHz-FSB%29 > If there's an option to turn off the hyperthreading in your bios, you > might try turning it off and see if that speed things up. > > I will try that. The next time I reboot my machine. Which will hopefully > be in 2017 ;) > > OK. So what does it say for "Server Priority"? I run mine at -7. What > does it say for "Scanner Priority"? (I run mine at 0, but you could > make it a lower number to potentially speed up scans.) > > I run my server at a negative priority and my scanner at a positive > priority, so that's fine. > > I doubt re-compiling perl would help much. > > OK see this is exactly the sort of information I was looking for. Now > that I have it, let me get greedy: why do you say that it wouldn't help > much? > > I don't think this would help much either. > > > > Where is the media stored? As I recall, the built-in SSD for the eee-pc > is pretty slow. Never tried the hard drive version. > > This eee-pc doesn't have SSD. The media are stored on USB WD Passport > drives. I moved them from NTFS to ext3 over the weekend. > > Here are some things that may speed things up: > > Set the server priority at a low number (-8 or -7). > > What else are you running on the machine? For a low-powered processor > like that, best if the machine is dedicated to LMS. > > Install your linux distro WITHOUT a GUI. (The GUI can chew up a lot of > resources on these atom-based machines). You can control the computer > from the command line and LMS from the web interface. > > This was the most obvious and yet the greatest tip. I've been running > win7 for so long that I forgot to shut off the GUI when I installed > Ubuntu. > > How much memory do you have? If less than 1GB, upgrade to 1GB. (More > than that will have diminishing benefit if you're only using the > computer for LMS.) > > Yeah I have 1GB. > > If your eee-pc uses an SSD, try some of these tips to speed things up: > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAcerOne?highlight=%28SSD%29#Reducing_Disk_Access_for_laptops_with_SSDs > > Also, have the media on a separate disk or separate partition from your > OS partition. I would have the media on a partition with ext4 > installed. > > I picked ext3 because it supports longer filenames. Not sure if I need > that, but 50 bytes seemed a bit short. > > Cheers. > > Tom
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