Re: [slim] Re: Optimizing Slimserver on a dedicated machine
On 2/1/06, Charles Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know it, but I will give it a try and see if it makes an improvement and report back. I checked the wiki - looks like those are the linux instructions. is there any one place where there are windows instructions I did move slimserver to a PIV 1.7 Ghz with 640 RAM (XP Pro) and it works better there, that is for sure. But that machine is for the kids and would sure like to put my old PIII to use (supermicro board, always very solid). Have you looked at the latest SlimCD (http://www.herger.net/SlimCD/) ? Might be a quick way to test Linux performance on your PIII hardware. I suspect you'll be amazed at the difference. Kirk ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Optimizing Slimserver on a dedicated machine
thx. I looked through that thread and it appears that the MySQL mainly helps with scanning (please correct me if I am wrong). On my system it also sped up CLI requests (getting album/artist/song lists) by about 25-30%. So I guess searches and browsing the music collection will also profit (though I never experienced problems there). -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the StringEditor Plugin (http://www.herger.net/slim/) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Optimizing Slimserver on a dedicated machine
I don't know it, but I will give it a try and see if it makes an improvement and report back. I checked the wiki - looks like those are the linux instructions. is there any one place where there are windows instructions I did move slimserver to a PIV 1.7 Ghz with 640 RAM (XP Pro)and it works better there, that is for sure. But that machine is for the kids and would sure like to put my old PIII to use (supermicro board, always very solid). On 2/1/06, max. spicer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since switching to MySQL I've definitely noticed things being a lotquicker.Then again, my slimserver machine is fairly underpowered (PIII 450 with 224MB RAM), so you may not see these effects if runningon a decent machine to start with.If you know MySQL anyway, I'd say go for it.If you don't, go for itif you're feeling adventurous (shouldn't be too hard), or you think you need all the speed up you can get.Bear in mind though, MySQL isn'tofficially supported.However, it's hard to imagine Slim notsupporting it anyway.;-)Maxmherger Wrote: thx.I looked through that thread and it appears that the MySQL mainly helps with scanning (please correct me if I am wrong). On my system it also sped up CLI requests (getting album/artist/song lists) by about 25-30%. So I guess searches and browsing the music collection will also profit (though I never experienced problems there). -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the StringEditor Plugin (http://www.herger.net/slim/)--max.spicerThe wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terribleteethand rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-byemax.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20641___ Discuss mailing listDiscuss@lists.slimdevices.comhttp://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Optimizing Slimserver on a dedicated machine
Thanks. The 'problem' I am trying to address is to get the web interface to work more quickly. I primarily use the web interface, not the remote. It can take 30 seconds to load certain pages (like Browse Albums or Browse Artists). The music library is about 10K songs. The slow load times are not related to the network as best I can tell - it is a wirednetwork and theslow load times occur both from client machines and on the machinerunning slimserver. I have also shut down musicmagic to see if that helps. Not appreciably. Memory usage - Musicmagic uses about 24 MB and slim.exe is using about 70 MB. I lowered the database cache size to 13. I really don't think it is much of a RAM problem:I notice that the CPU pretty much gets maxed out when loading pages like Browse Artists, Browse Albums. It just may be that I need to move slimserver to a machine with a faster CPU. I was hoping I could use the older PIII as it is a perfectly fine machine. Any other suggestions would be great. On 1/31/06, radish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, firstly you don't state what you're trying to achieve - is there aspecific problem you're trying to solve? To answer some of your points in a general sense: I set it to optimize for background services, rather than applications under Performance Options (I assume this should help as slimserver does run as a system service and that is also the way musicmagic is setup). I don't see any difference however.Doesn't surprise me. What that setting does is prioritize backgroundprocesses over foreground ones. You don't really have any foreground ones, so it won't make much difference. a. Keep Unswapped Interval - the default is 30. Should I lower this, to say 10 or 5? Will it make a difference?Unlikely to make much difference. Windows is unlikely to swap out slimserver unless it has to (i.e. it's short of ram) - you have adecent amount and again, nothing else running, so it's unlikely to beswapped out. If anything turning that feature off may preventoccasional hangups of the interface. b. Database Temporary File - Set to Use RAM. I am sure this is bestYup. c. DB Cache Size Tuning - the default is 10,000. I increased this 170,000, under the assumption that this would use roughly 250 MB RAM, using the guideline that 1 uses about 15 MB. Is this too much, or too little? Any advice?Use as much as you can get away with, but maybe not quite that much.With 512 available, I'd be wary of going much above 200 for the process as a whole - what does music magic use?--radishradish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20641___ Discuss mailing listDiscuss@lists.slimdevices.comhttp://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Optimizing Slimserver on a dedicated machine
I really don't think it is much of a RAM problem: I notice that the CPU pretty much gets maxed out when loading pages like Browse Artists, Browse Albums. It just may be that I need to move slimserver to a machine with a faster CPU. I was hoping I could use the older PIII as it is a perfectly fine machine. It should be fine. I'm running three instances of slimserver on a dual 1GHz PIII. Any other suggestions would be great. I've seen this sort of behaviour before on a PIII laptop running XP Pro - sometimes slimserver just really churns the disk. I've never bothered getting to the bottom of it as I use linux mainly. Linux is always an option. R. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
