aubuti;185006 Wrote: > Certainly not if count how long it took me to figure out how to get > slimserver on Windows read the library on my NAS!! But if you don't > count that, Win2K was about 40% slower to scan than Ubuntu. > > Server hardware: Dell P3 500MHz with 256MB RAM, > NAS hardware: Buffalo LinkStation HD-HG250LAN > Network: 100Mbs ethernet through a Netgear WGR614v3 router > Slimserver: Slimserver 6.5.1 (official release) > Library: 298 albums | 3848 songs | 228 artists (mostly FLAC) > > The Dell is a low horsepower machine, but in neither case did it have > to start swapping to virtual memory. In each case there was nothing > else major running on the machine while it was scanning. Scanning times > are.... > > Windows 2000/SP4: 17:53 (mm:ss) > (command: scanner --wipe --d_server --priority=0 M:\ > > Ubuntu 6.06: 12:48 > (command: time /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/slimserver/scanner.pl > --prefsfile=/etc/slimserver.pref --priority=0 --wipe --d_server) > > And for comparison, running on the LinkStation itself (running Debian, > 128MB RAM and 266MHz PPC): 36:03
I guess I would expect it to be a little slower on windows since it's dealing with a non-native file system. It would be interesting to see if the difference is linear with larger collections. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33041 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
