Gplouffe;287219 Wrote: > Not certain if anything concrete came out of this discussion but I > recently took a 1.6mhz 500mb ram desktop and went from linux (debian) > to windows xp sp2. Under linux, performance was great. Note: Music is > located on a Buffalo Terastation NAS >50K songs. Went to XP because of > another server need that I could not statisfy with Linux :( and > performance now is poor when searching library, especially when > searching through "music folder". > > Web performance has also decreased. >
People often, rightfully, feel the need to run anti-virus and firewalls within a Windows environment. These can seriously reduce IO performance. Are you using either of these? Additionally, it's likely that with just '500MB' of RAM that you are paging excessively in Windows...the Linux base would likely use less RAM. For such an old machine, another 512MB of RAM is likely to cost peanuts and may make all the difference. -- jaffacake ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jaffacake's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3206 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
