[slim] Concern with NV + Slimserver 6.5

[hotmachiato]

I have a 2TB NV with 1GB of RAM and am experiencing a lot of drop-outs
and stutter when using the web interface to control my slim devices (1)
original Slimp3 and (1) Sqeezebox. I need to be able to control the 
slim devices via the WEB as well as play music on my computers because
I use a combination of Macs/XP/Vista/FC5 to play/manage my music.

I notice the drop-outs mostly on the Slimp3 box, but the Squeeze box is
not unaffected either. I use Moose on my Windows boxen, but on the
others I use the web-interface. As soon as I start using it, the slim
devices start dropping out music.

I am concerned because I am thinking of investing on a Transporter for
my media room and I smply cannot tolerate the drop outs. I am also
going to convert all my vinyl albums (+1200) and put them on the server
as well, and if things don't scale to +25k songs, I will have to look at
a different solution. Questions:

1. Is the Slimp3 cache simply not large enough?
2. Would the Transporter together with a Squeezebox (1 and 2) put more
strain on the already taxed server
3. I will only run FLAC on the Transporter.

I would liek to start some healthy discussions aroudn the topics
mentioned above. 

Thankx,

Carl

Here is my config:

Squeezebox (firmware 40)
Slimp3(firmware 2.3)

Infrant NV (1GB RAM) 2TB of storage
Firmware v301c1-p6 (latest)
Slimserver 6.5.1-10479

Slimserver config:
Library stats (off)
Webserver forking (on)

Music (all ripped from my own CD's)
Encoding: FLAC AND MP3 (225kbps VBR)
Artists (570) 
Albums (1311)
Songs (13022) mp3 (13000) flac


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Re: [slim] Concern with NV + Slimserver 6.5

[Michael Herger]

I notice the drop-outs mostly on the Slimp3 box, but the Squeeze box is
not unaffected either.
I am concerned because I am thinking of investing on a Transporter for
my media room and I smply cannot tolerate the drop outs.


The dropouts are most likely due to small buffers in these older devices.  
The SB2/3 and Tx have huge buffers (15-20x larger) compared to them  
(http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?HardwareComparison). The Tx can  
easily play a minute or two without being fed by the server.



1. Is the Slimp3 cache simply not large enough?


Yes.


2. Would the Transporter together with a Squeezebox (1 and 2) put more
strain on the already taxed server


Not that much. Web serving is of the most power consuming acitivities on  
slimserver.



3. I will only run FLAC on the Transporter.


If you play FLAC to the SliMP3 and SB the server additionally has to  
convert these to MP3 on the fly. This isn't necessary with the Tx.


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