Re: 486 server?

I suspect much of the slowdown was due to the remotly mounted files, at
least with pre-2.1 versions where there was a lot of disk access involved
in moving around directories.


On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Jordan Share wrote:

> Um, I'm running it on a P100 (granted, my MP3s are on a windows box,
> mounted via samba), and I wouldn't say that  it is "just fine".  Everything
> works pretty well, but I did have to turn on the "throttling" of background
> scanning.
>
> Going to a large directory takes long enough to make it seem like it
> doesn't know you pressed a button (but it does come up w/o killing the
> tunes).  The same goes for the Albums view, and the Artists
> view.  Scrolling up and down in those views is also like molasses (i.e. I
> get virtually no "gradual acceleration", like I do in the MusicLibrary view).
>
> Things have gotten a /lot/ better with the recent versions of the software,
> and I no longer have plans to move the server off the P100.  It's sluggish
> in spots, but definitely bearable.  And I expect it to improve.
>
> If you are going to run it on a 486, tho, I figure you'll be mounting your
> mp3s over the network, and thus be in a similar situation to mine.  (Since,
> most 486 mobos couldn't handle "big" IDE drives, and that was when big was
> <10 gigs).
>
> Anybody remember how 486s compared in speed to the pentiums?  IIRC, there
> was speed increase beyond just the MHz.
>
> It seems like it'd be worth a shot.  If it doesn't work, you'll at least be
> able to use the 486 as a router. :)
>
> Jordan
>
>
> At 07:13 PM 3/15/2002, Sean Adams wrote:
>
> >A 486 should be fast enough, but I'd recommend upping the memory to 32MB
> >if you can. If you're running Linux or FreeBSD on it, you could possibly
> >squeeze by in 16MB.
> >
> >We'd be interested in hearing your results. The slowest machine this has
> >been tested on was a P90, and it ran fine on that system. Don't know how
> >much RAM he had.
> >
> >On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > > I'm sure this has been addressed before, but I am a very, very new newbie,
> > > so I'll ask the question: would a 486 be an ane adequate server for the
> > > Slimp3, say with 16 megs of RAM? The only reason I ask is that I can get a
> > > free 486 from school, so if I can use it for this, that would be really
> > > great.
> > > -Colgraff
> > >
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