I just want objective information. I already have a system running on XP with 3 TB of FLAC files. I don't have endless amounts of time to fiddle with machines, there's other stuff to do, so I was trying to find objective information to answer a question for myself: "would it be worthwhile to re-do my server in Lunx?"
The thing I am looking for is faster searches, etc, and I was looking for info that I could use to answer that question for myself. I learned that most people expected it would be "faster" but it order to answer that question for myself I need to attemp to answer "how MUCH faster" - knowing ahead of time that no EXACT answer is possible but certainly benchmarks would have given me a "feel" for it. I was told by one poster that Squeezecenter XP vs. Linux benchmarks exist. I couldn't locate any, and so then people started getting pissed off that I even asked..... I get a sense that with a fairly fast machine like the 4-core 2 gHz that I am using differences would be somewhere between "trivial" and "noticeable," but not really enough to justify the work it would take. My thinking was that if some part of the server / indexer / database was really well optimized for Linux and ran poorly on XP then it would make sense. I wasn't really even thinking that the performance of the OS would play a part at all! I was just wondering if some part of the server is really not well written for XP in terms of performance and so switching to Linux would offer make the APPLICATION - NOT the OS!!- run a lot faster. You guys really need to lighten up a little. -- milosz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ milosz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65585 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
