Re: 486 server?

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:
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> > 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.
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