Mark Lanctot;200596 Wrote: > Filling up the buffer isn't causing problems for you - see your Player > Statistics - you didn't even get one sample less than 10% buffer. This > means you have adequate bandwidth to fill the buffer without dropouts. > > It seems to be the act of choosing another track at random that's > taxing the CPU and causing problems. Unfortunately you're right, I > gave bad advice - once the initial playlist is loaded, only one track > will be added at a time. If the CPU can't handle that, it doesn't > matter how many tracks ahead you add. The numbers I suggested to > change only -show- the upcoming tracks and the previous tracks in the > playlist. > > Unfortunately there's not too much you can do. Based on what I read > about NASes, they just don't seem to have the horsepower to reliably > run SlimServer 6.5.0+. > > You can ease the CPU load by closing the web interface when it's not in > use, but there's not much more you can do.
I appreciate your attempts to help. It looks we've adequately diagnosed the problem, but not a solution. I wonder if more RAM would be of benefit? I only have the stock 256K. -- SamS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SamS's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34867 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
