I'm running right now the Flintstones' version of Touch, with linux
(2.6.32), SBS 7.6, MiP :), and one instance of squeezelite on a pcengine
alix2 platform.
I haven't worked much on the OS yet but the system performs quite well.
I can sync an SB3 and squeezelite with very good results.
I am using usb in on a V-Dac to get audio out of the alix.
Worked fine almost immediately --well, I was cursing against alsa, a
pain to get sound out as usual... until I realized the SB3 has powered
off my amp when I stopped it to connect the alix box :D
This platform uses about 50% CPU when running squeezelite, SBS and the
web interface. I added a 1000ms audio delay to get reliable synching,
probably an overkill. I tried playing a DVD-A and the machine choked. It
works perfect without transcoding. I captured a top while testing (the
10% CPU usage is very flattering. 30-70 is more realistic):
Code:
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top - 00:40:03 up 1:13, 2 users, load average: 0.13, 0.10, 0.17
Tasks: 85 total, 2 running, 83 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 10.8%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 87.3%id, 0.0%wa, 1.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 254860k total, 248092k used, 6768k free, 1080k buffers
Swap: 1048568k total, 2568k used, 1046000k free, 75804k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1536 root RT 0 9612 6920 984 S 6.8 2.7 2:21.25 squeezelite-i38
1196 squeezeb 20 0 138m 129m 3568 R 5.9 52.2 6:59.30 squeezeboxserve
1687 root 20 0 2424 1116 880 R 2.9 0.4 0:03.23 top
1 root 20 0 2024 564 524 S 0.0 0.2 0:02.98 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
...
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I am sure some further improvement is possible, streamlining the install
and compiling a kernel tuned for the job. I like these machines a lot,
however compared to recent ARM platforms they lack in ram and speed, and
cost more.
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