I was running SoftSqueeze and SlimServer on an old PII/266 and had dropouts all the time with SoftSqueeze. When I looked at the system using "top" to see what was taking CPU it was almost all SoftSqueeze. This is not scientific - but I'd say greater than 85% of the CPU was being taken by SoftSqueeze. The amount of CPU taken by slimserver was typically only a few percent. The only exception is if you are doing a "rescan" of your music library - in which case SlimServer takes a lot of CPU - as much as it can get - until the operation completes.
When I bought a hardware SB3 and continued to use the PII/266 computer for the SlimServer everything has worked exceptionally well. I've never had any dropout - note though - I am using the 100mbps/wired interface. In short SoftSqueeze is a real CPU hog - and from my experience using it on even faster machines - is not really reliable in most cases that I've tried. I think that you'll be pleasantly surprised when you get the new SB3 player at how well things work. At least that has been my experience. Good Luck, Kevin -- kkitts ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kkitts's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19302 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
