Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread Pat Farrell
Craig wrote: > Pat - apart from the rescanning, aren't your problems caused by other > apps using the cpu? whereas these fix's seem to be related to > SlimServer stalling the streaming. It could, of course, be anything. But the box is dedicated to being a SlimServer. It doesn't even have a monitor

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread Triode
Stuart - could you post the whole log (ziped?) Or just a few lines above each of these. Reason for asking is that we need the lines above the "Response Time > 0.5" lines... Good news is that we should be able to reduce the ones due to "writePrefs" quite easily... -- Triode ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread Andy Grundman
MOMENTARY PAUSES while SlimScrobbler is submitting (just this once - it didn't happen for any of the other track submits) 2006-05-08 19:45:16.2600 Timer Task > 0.5 : 1.34793710708618 2006-05-08 19:45:16.2616 Plugins::SlimScrobbler::Plugin::submitter 2006-05-08 19:45:16.2631 Response Time > 0

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread hickinbottoms
Triode Wrote: > To add the the post from Andy above - I would be interested in the > output from the --perfwarn option added to last night's 6.5 from anyone > having problems streaming to SB1. This may help target the problem > areas in the current server architecture. To add my data to this I'

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Re: Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread Andy Grundman
On May 8, 2006, at 4:51 PM, Dan Sully wrote: * Andy Grundman shaped the electrons to say... There are also pure-Perl solutions that are a lot lighter and easier to manage, i.e. Net::Server or POE, as Dan mentioned. Or we could use a light-weight web server such as lighttpd. Apache mi

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Re: Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread Dan Sully
* Andy Grundman shaped the electrons to say... There are also pure-Perl solutions that are a lot lighter and easier to manage, i.e. Net::Server or POE, as Dan mentioned. Or we could use a light-weight web server such as lighttpd. Apache might be a bit heavyweight for our needs, which, pro

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread Andy Grundman
On May 8, 2006, at 4:43 PM, Dan Sully wrote: * Christopher Key shaped the electrons to say... Can I assume that the position is approximately as follows. It is agreed the splitting things up is certainly worthwhile, but that pre Perl 5.8, it really isn't practical, and requiring Perl 5.8

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread Dan Sully
* Christopher Key shaped the electrons to say... Can I assume that the position is approximately as follows. It is agreed the splitting things up is certainly worthwhile, but that pre Perl 5.8, it really isn't practical, and requiring Perl 5.8 wasn't acceptable. Perl 5.8 introduced suitable th

RE: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread Christopher Key
kdf wrote: >> I've had a bit of a dig, but not found anything that seems to be >> conclusive. Could you point me in the right direction, as you know >> what you're looking for. > > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=15613 > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=1166 > http://f

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread Andy Grundman
2006-05-08 20:32:19.7901 Slim::Web::HTTP::processHTTP 2006-05-08 20:32:23.1430 Select Task > 0.5 : 4.31901407241821 This one is not actually a problem as the "Response Time" has not exceeded the threshold. It means the task is doing some tricks to stream audio while it is running, i.e. the t

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread Triode
Thanks - for info: Craig Wrote: > 2006-05-08 20:29:20.4101 Request Task > 0.5 : 8.02541708946228 > 2006-05-08 20:29:20.4106 Notify: > Plugins::RandomPlay::Plugin::commandCallback > 2006-05-08 20:29:20.4118 Response Time > 0.5 : 8.05730199813843 > This one is a problem and as Dan says should b

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread Craig
Triode, The main ones I'm seeing are 2006-05-08 20:29:20.4101 Request Task > 0.5 : 8.02541708946228 2006-05-08 20:29:20.4106 Notify: Plugins::RandomPlay::Plugin::commandCallback 2006-05-08 20:29:20.4118 Response Time > 0.5 : 8.05730199813843 Which Dan said has been dealt with in the split sca

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread Triode
To add the the post from Andy above - I would be interested in the output from the --perfwarn option added to last night's 6.5 from anyone having problems streaming to SB1. This may help target the problem areas in the current server architecture. Start the server from the command line with the

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Can't call method "header"

2006-05-08 Thread Andy Grundman
On May 8, 2006, at 3:00 PM, atlslim wrote: Deleting FileCache Worked. Just curious if I missed something or should I be deleting this directory routinely (similar to browser cache)?? Nope, that's just what you get living on the edge. ;) ___ beta m

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Can't call method "header"

2006-05-08 Thread atlslim
Deleting FileCache Worked. Just curious if I missed something or should I be deleting this directory routinely (similar to browser cache)?? Thanks again. -- atlslim atlslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/membe

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Can't call method "header"

2006-05-08 Thread Andy Grundman
On May 8, 2006, at 2:42 PM, atlslim wrote: getting this output (and slimserver crash) for both 'shoutcast' and 'slim devices picks' plugins: 2006-05-08 07:52:13.6268 Formats::XML: async request: http://content.us.squeezenetwork.com:8080/shoutcast/index.opml Can't call method "header" on unble

[SlimDevices: Beta] Can't call method "header"

2006-05-08 Thread atlslim
getting this output (and slimserver crash) for both 'shoutcast' and 'slim devices picks' plugins: 2006-05-08 07:52:13.6268 Formats::XML: async request: http://content.us.squeezenetwork.com:8080/shoutcast/index.opml Can't call method "header" on unblessed reference at C:/PROGRA~1/SLIMSE~1/server/S

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Favorites missing in latest SVN (6.5)

2006-05-08 Thread kdf
Quoting atlslim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Favorites plugin not available in 6.5 Revision:7346 (W2K) I know...I'll fix it later. Only had time to deal with 6.3.0 before work. -k ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com

[SlimDevices: Beta] Favorites missing in latest SVN (6.5)

2006-05-08 Thread atlslim
Favorites plugin not available in 6.5 Revision:7346 (W2K) output from -d_plugins: 2006-05-08 13:32:21.8041 Can't require Plugins::Favorites::Plugin for Plugins menu: Global symbol "$urls" requires explicit package name at C:/PROGRA~1/SLIMSE~1/server/Plugins/Favorites/Plugin.pm line 249. Global s

RE: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread kdf
I've had a bit of a dig, but not found anything that seems to be conclusive. Could you point me in the right direction, as you know what you're looking for. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=15613 http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=1166 http://forums.slimdevices.com/sh

RE: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread Christopher Key
kdf wrote: > this has been covered before. feel free to search, to avoid going > through the same exact discussion again :) > ___ beta mailing list > beta@lists.slimdevices.com > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta I've had a bit of a dig,

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Re: Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread Dan Sully
* ron thigpen shaped the electrons to say... I had suspected the Genre filtering and given it a go with both All genres checked and No genres checked (on the theory that the code would go about things differently in these cases) but it didn't seem to make enough of a difference to matter for S

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread ron thigpen
Dan Sully wrote: I've already optimized RandomMix in the split-scanner branch. It's the genre excluding code that's causing it. Thanks Dan. Good to know it's been looked at. I had suspected the Genre filtering and given it a go with both All genres checked and No genres checked (on the the

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread Dan Sully
* ron thigpen shaped the electrons to say... This glitch is also apparent on my SB2s. It really messes up any attempt to use Random Mix with two boxes sync'd. Do you know if there is a bug filed for the specific issue with DBI:Find? There might be code optimizations that could resolve this

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread Craig
I can view any page except view artwork without pausing on a 10,500 song DB so that's a definate improvement. Pat - apart from the rescanning, aren't your problems caused by other apps using the cpu? whereas these fix's seem to be related to SlimServer stalling the streaming. Craig -- Craig -

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread Craig
Robin Bowes Wrote: > ron thigpen wrote: > > Craig wrote: > > > >> I'm still getting pauses when Random Mix makes a new selection but > I've > >> tracked this to DBI:Find and I guess this will be covered by the > move to > >> mySQL?. > > > > This glitch is also apparent on my SB2s. It really me

[SlimDevices: Beta] Sync broken in Random Mix playback

2006-05-08 Thread ron thigpen
I've just added Bug #3401 - "Sync broken in Random Mix playback" to cover the specific interaction between Random Mix and SB synchronized play. Some of the underlying causes and fixes may help with other sync and dropout issues. As the issue is occurring for me in the 6.5b branch, and seems l

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread Robin Bowes
ron thigpen wrote: > Craig wrote: > >> I'm still getting pauses when Random Mix makes a new selection but I've >> tracked this to DBI:Find and I guess this will be covered by the move to >> mySQL?. > > This glitch is also apparent on my SB2s. It really messes up any > attempt to use Random Mix w

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread ron thigpen
Craig wrote: I'm still getting pauses when Random Mix makes a new selection but I've tracked this to DBI:Find and I guess this will be covered by the move to mySQL?. This glitch is also apparent on my SB2s. It really messes up any attempt to use Random Mix with two boxes sync'd. Do you kno

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread andyg
OK, right. Those heavy database pages are still a problem I'm not sure we'll be able to solve until we get DBIx::Class merged in from split-scanner. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?useri

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread Pat Farrell
andyg wrote: > Do those dropouts only occur during a rescan? Try setting the new > perfwarn option. You'll need the latest nightly for this. Not for me, they occur during normal playback. Or, they also occur during normal playback. During rescan, my server is unlistenable. Its only a AMD2400+ o

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread jonmyatt
andyg Wrote: > Do those dropouts only occur during a rescan? Try setting the new > perfwarn option. You'll need the latest nightly for this. > > ./slimserver.pl --perfwarn=0.5 OK ta - will grab it now and try. And no, they occur when the web interface has a lot to do - e.g. Browse Artists.

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread andyg
Do those dropouts only occur during a rescan? Try setting the new perfwarn option. You'll need the latest nightly for this. ./slimserver.pl --perfwarn=0.5 -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.p

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread jonmyatt
Dan Sully Wrote: > > FYI - here's a better patch which checks the size of the sndbuf first. > Doesn't seem to have improved matters here, I'm still getting dropouts caused by the server process hogging CPU. This is with 6.5b1 build 7296, and a library of 6000-ish songs. Which debug flags sho

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread Craig
I've just installed the 5/8 build of 6.5 windows and I seem to be able to do anything with the web browser with only small dips in buffer fullness as opposed to the pauses I was getting before :-) I'm still getting pauses when Random Mix makes a new selection but I've tracked this to DBI:Find and

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread Craig
Triode Wrote: > > Are you willing to try 6.5 as I am about to put some more diagnostics > in this to help understand what causes long response times. I can give it a go on windows if you tell me what to do. Craig -- Craig -