sugarmonster;240741 Wrote: > Slimserver itself is fairly lightweight so that spec should be more than > sufficient. The hard drive speed is pretty irrelevant, the SB has a > large buffer so you won't notice any blips in the transfer. > > For comparison, I was using slimserver and InguzDSP on a 1.8Ghz core > duo laptop which is only slightly faster than your spec and that was > only using 20% CPU (most of that was down to the Inguz plugin). > > If you've got the choice I'd go XP over vista. XP is way less resource > hungry and as it's a server you won't see the vista eye candy anyway.
Uh... For comparison, I'm using a 500 MHz PIII in linux and, looking at the 'top' output which tells me processor usage, it's hasn't used more than 4% of the processor time whilst playing a track. mysqld sometimes takes a bit longer to do some of the searches, but then that's not a big deal. If using the web interface is a bigger deal then more processor speed is better. Other examples: Selecting the Artists menu and it opening the list of artists: 23% processor time slimserver, 24% mysqld, time to open the menu about 1 second. Holding down the 'down' button to scroll through the artists continuously: about 18% processor time pretty steady. Internet radio, Slim Picks, Alt|Radio DavidByrne.com: never more than 1.5% processor time. I'd say based on my figures that if your 1.8G machine is using 20% of its processor time doing stuff for slimserver then that plugin is seriously sapping the life from the system, because just playing music should be using ~1.3% of the processor time for slimserver (your machine is > 3x faster, so 1/3 of 4% processor time). (all this said, I'm intending on getting a new server which far outstrips the current one shortly...) -- gerph ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40006 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
