Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Linux Intel Atom 330 server - Power consumption
I have become a huge believer in SSDs, and given their current price levels even more so. You could say I run my private cloud these days - the servers are aggressively power managed and the OS and SW resides on SSds... the data resides on a redundant Synology DS209 server. My SBS setup runs from 25W to 38W in active state, and that includes the external 1GB drive. If I check it in dormant state it'll be less than 10W. -- pablolie ...pablo Server: Shuttle X27D - Ubuntu 10.04LTS - SBS 7.4.2 Sources: SB3 (3), SB Boom (3), Duet (1), Radio (1), Accuphase DP65v CD (used as DAC mostly) Amplifiers: Accuphase E306v - Creek OBH21/22 Loudspeakers: Ceeroy 3-way tower (tuned) - Audioengine 5/S8 - Acoustic Energy Aego M Headphones: Grado SR-1 pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75902 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Linux Intel Atom 330 server - Power consumption
gharris999;529973 Wrote: > Is that actual BAILING WIRE securing the hard disc? 'Stretch Magic' (http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog/productdetail.jsp;jsessionid=C06251B5FBF78FB2E958CA5AE4185875.a6p1?CATID=cat1125&PRODID=xprd728194). You can find it at craft/sewing stores. It's gained fame within the quiet-PC subculture for 'hard drive suspension' (http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11674) (quiets HDD seek clatter). In the case of my 2.5" notebook drive, there's no seek noise to speak of. So I just lashed it down to some foam. -- Jay_S Jay_S's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13943 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75902 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Gentoo Linux ebuild for 7.4.1?
We have seen some reports of that - sorry you're having trouble. I've never been able to reproduce it myself and so I've not been able to try to debug it. For others that have reported that they have reported some success with removing bits of previous installations and re-installing 7.4.2 - see the following comment in a Gentoo bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307119#c11 Could you try that and see if it helps. I'm going to try some 7.4.1-->7.4.2 migrations to see if I can reproduce it. Stuart On 09/04/2010 3:34 PM, albright wrote: > sorry for all the posts, but now trying to return to 7.4.2 > I get the can't connect error: > > Slim::Schema::init (130) Error: Couldn't connect to database! Fatal > error: [] Exiting! > > What a PITA! > > ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Has the Debian/Ubuntu repo moved?
tcutting;532321 Wrote: > I think the problem is with another of the repos for Ubuntu - when I did > the apt-get update a couple of days ago it also hung in the middle of > the update, but I think it had already gotten info from the slim repo. You could be on to something, I see "Ign" results for things like http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Translation-en_CA It always STOPS at the debian.slimdevices repo because that's the last on the list, so it looks like that's the one that's failing, but it could be it's waiting for some of the others earlier in the list that failed. -- Mark Lanctot Current: SB2, Transporter, Boom (PQP3 - late beta, PQP1 - early beta), SBC (early beta), Squeezebox Radio (PB1 - early beta), Squeezebox Touch (late beta) Sold: SB3, Duet Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77056 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Has the Debian/Ubuntu repo moved?
tcutting wrote: > I think the problem is with another of the repos for Ubuntu - when I did > the apt-get update a couple of days ago it also hung in the middle of > the update, but I think it had already gotten info from the slim repo. I've seen that as well. the update zooms through 50 repos, and than takes several minutes for one. Perhaps some Debian/Ubuntu repos is way overloaded. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Has the Debian/Ubuntu repo moved?
I waited 2 minutes, eventually it did finish. Installing 7.5.0 now. Perhaps the servers are overloaded with everyone trying to update? It used to be instantaneous. -- Mark Lanctot Current: SB2, Transporter, Boom (PQP3 - late beta, PQP1 - early beta), SBC (early beta), Squeezebox Radio (PB1 - early beta), Squeezebox Touch (late beta) Sold: SB3, Duet Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77056 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Has the Debian/Ubuntu repo moved?
I think the problem is with another of the repos for Ubuntu - when I did the apt-get update a couple of days ago it also hung in the middle of the update, but I think it had already gotten info from the slim repo. -- tcutting tcutting's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17402 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77056 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Has the Debian/Ubuntu repo moved?
Hmmm, you're absolutely right aubuti. Guess I was a little impatient. For me, indefinitely apparently means 3 minutes ;) It still could point to some problems with the repo, 3 minutes is a long time to fetch some headers. Anyways, finally at 7.5.1 now :) -- NooT NooT's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37410 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77056 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Has the Debian/Ubuntu repo moved?
Yes, the gui package manager does an apt-get update first. I just updated other packages on my Ubuntu box that runs SBS, and it hung for awhile when doing the update, but eventually it finished. Same thing when I tried it again via the command line. It hung at 99% of waiting for headers for probably 3-4 minutes, but eventually it finished. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77056 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Has the Debian/Ubuntu repo moved?
aubuti;532274 Wrote: > Hey Mark, I had noticed you haven't been around lately. Welcome back. > > Fwiw, when 7.5.0 was released earlier this week I pulled it from that > repo with no problem. Did you do an "apt-get update" before running the > "apt-get install squeezeboxserver"? I guess I'm lazy, I'm doing this through the Update Manager GUI. However I think that's what it does - apt-get update. Trying from the shell, nope, same result as NooT, it hangs at "waiting for headers". I haven't been around lately due to lots and lots happening in my personal life - engagement, buying a home, moving, renovations, it just keeps going on and on! Good to see you too, aubuti - thanks for the welcome! :-) -- Mark Lanctot Current: SB2, Transporter, Boom (PQP3 - late beta, PQP1 - early beta), SBC (early beta), Squeezebox Radio (PB1 - early beta), Squeezebox Touch (late beta) Sold: SB3, Duet Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77056 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Has the Debian/Ubuntu repo moved?
aubuti;532274 Wrote: > Hey Mark, I had noticed you haven't been around lately. Welcome back. > > Fwiw, when 7.5.0 was released earlier this week I pulled it from that > repo with no problem. Did you do an "apt-get update" before running the > "apt-get install squeezeboxserver"? I guess I'm lazy, I'm doing this through the Update Manager GUI. However I think that's what it does - apt-get update. Trying from the shell, nope, same result as NooT, it hangs at "waiting for headers". I haven't been around lately due to lots and lots happening in my personal life - engagement, buying a home, moving, renovations, it just keeps going on and on! Good to see you too, aubuti - thanks for the welcome! :-) -- Mark Lanctot Current: SB2, Transporter, Boom (PQP3 - late beta, PQP1 - early beta), SBC (early beta), Squeezebox Radio (PB1 - early beta), Squeezebox Touch (late beta) Sold: SB3, Duet Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77056 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Has the Debian/Ubuntu repo moved?
aubuti;532274 Wrote: > Hey Mark, I had noticed you haven't been around lately. Welcome back. > > Fwiw, when 7.5.0 was released earlier this week I pulled it from that > repo with no problem. Did you do an "apt-get update" before running the > "apt-get install squeezeboxserver"? I guess I'm lazy, I'm doing this through the Update Manager GUI. However I think that's what it does - apt-get update. Trying from the shell, nope, same result as NooT, it hangs at "waiting for headers". I haven't been around lately due to lots and lots happening in my personal life - engagement, buying a home, moving, renovations, it just keeps going on and on! Good to see you too, aubuti - thanks for the welcome! :-) -- Mark Lanctot Current: SB2, Transporter, Boom (PQP3 - late beta, PQP1 - early beta), SBC (early beta), Squeezebox Radio (PB1 - early beta), Squeezebox Touch (late beta) Sold: SB3, Duet Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77056 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Gentoo Linux ebuild for 7.4.1?
sorry for all the posts, but now trying to return to 7.4.2 I get the can't connect error: Slim::Schema::init (130) Error: Couldn't connect to database! Fatal error: [] Exiting! What a PITA! -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70927 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Gentoo Linux ebuild for 7.4.1?
I also see I cannot retreat to 7.4.1 anymore - tried and when I attempt to start squeezeboxserver-7.4.1 I get this error: dirsFor: Didn't find a match request: [scprefs] Use of uninitialized value in -d at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Slim/Utils/OS/Unix.pm line 122. And it fails. -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70927 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Has the Debian/Ubuntu repo moved?
Hey Mark, I had noticed you haven't been around lately. Welcome back. Fwiw, when 7.5.0 was released earlier this week I pulled it from that repo with no problem. Did you do an "apt-get update" before running the "apt-get install squeezeboxserver"? -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77056 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] A problem with playing lots of songs
I don't know the coding why's and how's of this particular case -- I was just stating the facts. I can also tell you that handling _any_ playlist of 8609 tracks is going to slow down your server, even if it's not shuffled. If you know Perl as well as Python, the server code and all the plugin code is there for you to see for yourself exactly how hard or easy it is to do it better. And as they say, patches are welcome ;o) -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77050 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Gentoo Linux ebuild for 7.4.1?
after a truly huge amount of difficulty getting 7.4.2 running it does finally run but it won't scan the collection. I keep getting errors like this: Slim::Schema::throw_exception (304) Error: Unable to uniquely identify row object with missing PK columns: id The server reports Music scan terminated unexpectedly (Directory Scan) -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70927 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
[SlimDevices: Unix] Has the Debian/Ubuntu repo moved?
For about a week now, I've failed to get http://debian.slimdevices.com stable. I haven't been on these forums for quite a while - I think I must have missed something. Or is it that I'm the only one with this issue? I've looked around the Linux/Unix forum, there doesn't seem to be any widespread reports of this lately. Thanks. -- Mark Lanctot Current: SB2, Transporter, Boom (PQP3 - late beta, PQP1 - early beta), SBC (early beta), Squeezebox Radio (PB1 - early beta), Squeezebox Touch (late beta) Sold: SB3, Duet Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77056 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] A problem with playing lots of songs
aubuti;532225 Wrote: > Shuffle mode is a processor-intensive and terribly computationally > inefficient way to randomize songs, especially compared to Random Mix > or any of the more sophisticated plugins like Dynamic Playlists, > MusicIP, or Spicefly Sugarcube. And throwing thousands of tracks at it > to shuffle is downright torture. Why should this be so processor intensive? making a random query on a MySQL database takes hardly any time, and scanning a big directory tree for MP3 data shouldn't take more than 5 minutes. The MP3 scanner to database I've written in Python for something else only takes a couple of minutes. Isn't the process something like: scan directories into database, do a randomised query and send to player. I don't see why that should be hard? I've been using these squeezeboxes since the original slimp3 device. I've noticed the shuffle play get a bit slower over the years. I'll try those plugins. Karl. -- karl101 karl101's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1430 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77050 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] A problem with playing lots of songs
If you have squeezeboxserver 7.5, there is a standard limit of 500 songs in a playlist. But I don't know if that really is related to your problem. To play longer playlists with the latest versions of SBS, you have to go to settings - advanced - performance (?) and make a blank space instead of the number 500. -- united59 united59's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37126 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77050 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] A problem with playing lots of songs
Shuffle mode is a processor-intensive and terribly computationally inefficient way to randomize songs, especially compared to Random Mix or any of the more sophisticated plugins like Dynamic Playlists, MusicIP, or Spicefly Sugarcube. And throwing thousands of tracks at it to shuffle is downright torture. If you're worried about an audio book track showing up in your Random Mix, simply give your audio books a suitable and don't include that genre in your list of eligible genres for Random Mix. You just need to take a minute or two to configure it properly. The Dynamic Playlists plugin gives you finer control over genres to include/exclude. MusicIP is downright brilliant at building playlists based on the musical attributes of the "seed" songs you give it -- it's like Pandora for your own library. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77050 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Gentoo Linux ebuild for 7.4.1?
By the way, the 7.4.2 ebuild has just been added to Portage and that patch is in there (and in my in-progress 7.5.x ebuild). Stuart On 09/04/2010 11:50 AM, ralphy wrote: > hickinbottoms;531639 Wrote: >> Yep - I'll see what I can do. I've started the process of putting >> together the 7.5 ebuild so I'll include it for that as well. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Stuart >> > That's great! > > Thanks Stuart. > > ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
[SlimDevices: Unix] A problem with playing lots of songs
Hello, I'm having problems playing large amounts of songs on my squeezebox radio. I have it in shuffled mode, then select My Music > Music Folder > CD Rip and press play. There are 8,609 tracks in the CD rip folder. I then get a spinning icon, after a few minutes the screen says it cannot find server, and again after a short while it reverts to the previous screen. Last night I left it doing this for over an hour before getting bored and switching it off. The top command shows heavy processor use: Code: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 1804 squeezeb 20 0 92204 86m 4008 R 90 2.6 125:04.84 squeezeboxserve 2264 squeezeb 20 0 112m 24m 5804 S 13 0.7 14:44.91 mysqld I'm running this on a Ubuntu v9.04 box, with 4Gb RAM, Dual Core Intel Atom 330 Processor. Is there anything that can be done to speed this up? Yes I know about the Random Mix function, but that plays music from all folders and having a random track from an audiobook when I want to just listen to music is a bit poor. Karl. -- karl101 karl101's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1430 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77050 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
[SlimDevices: Unix] A problem with playing lots of songs
Hello, I'm having problems playing large amounts of songs on my squeezebox radio. I have it in shuffled mode, then select My Music > Music Folder > CD Rip and press play. There are 8,609 tracks in the CD rip folder. I then get a spinning icon, after a few minutes the screen says it cannot find server, and again after a short while it reverts to the previous screen. Last night I left it doing this for over an hour before getting bored and switching it off. The top command shows heavy processor use: Code: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 1804 squeezeb 20 0 92204 86m 4008 R 90 2.6 125:04.84 squeezeboxserve 2264 squeezeb 20 0 112m 24m 5804 S 13 0.7 14:44.91 mysqld I'm running this on a Ubuntu v9.04 box, with 4Gb RAM, Dual Core Intel Atom 330 Processor. Is there anything that can be done to speed this up? Yes I know about the Random Mix function, but that plays music from all folders and having a random track from an audiobook when I want to just listen to music is a bit poor. Karl. -- karl101 karl101's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1430 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77050 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Gentoo Linux ebuild for 7.4.1?
hickinbottoms;531639 Wrote: > Yep - I'll see what I can do. I've started the process of putting > together the 7.5 ebuild so I'll include it for that as well. > > Thanks, > > Stuart > That's great! Thanks Stuart. -- ralphy ralphy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3484 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70927 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Squeezebox working on pogoplug - Howto
grahams;531521 Wrote: > Ouch, I'm glad I got mine for free. I'm happy i have a Tonido plug -- raven22 Setup: 1 SB3, 3 Booms and 1 Radio. Server: SheevaPlug running Debian 6.0 Squeeze on SD-card with SqueezeBoxServer 7.5.0 raven22's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16511 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76530 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
