SqueezeCenter 7.x webinterface (ReadyNAS NV+ 1GB RAM)

[sherazade]

Hi,

as many other in this forum I got the problem that the webinterface of the SqueezeCenter since version 7.x is incredebly slow. Simply accessing the index page takes more than 5 minutes!!!
Actually the basic page is build up quite fast (at least compared to the overall time) but loading the icons for the different options/plugins in the left side menu takes ages. To see what actually takes that much time I locked onto my ReadNAS via SSH and ran top after my browser already loaded the plalist and the menu structure and "only" the icons remained to be loaded. I was very surprised to see the slimserver-s process was taking 90+% of the cpu time although it wasn't doing "anything" apart from transferring maybe 100Kb in total for the icons.

I think there should be much space for performance tuning in this area, or is there anything I missed SqueezeCenter needs to do to while transfering the menu icons.

Is there perhaps already any tuning planed regarding this problem??

Best regards

P.S.: I really love the combination ReadyNAS + SqueezeBox

[mherger]

> as many other in this forum I got the problem that the webinterface of
> the SqueezeCenter since version 7.x is incredebly slow. Simply
> accessing the index page takes more than 5 minutes!!!

?!?? While it can take half a minute, it should not spend minutes doing so. Did the initial scan finish?

> Actually the basic page is build up quite fast (at least compared to
> the overall time) but loading the icons for the different
> options/plugins in the left side menu takes ages.

Please make sure you've set Artwork Resampling to use the faster Resize algorithm. The 5 minutes spent to render the images are typical for the slower Resampling algorithm on the ReadyNAS. In fact that option was introduced solely because of the ReadyNAS...

> Is there perhaps already any tuning planed regarding this problem??

Yes, we're actively working on improving performance on low-power machines. Make sure you're running the latest 7.2 builds - nightly 7.2.1 might even be a tiny wee bit faster than 7.2.0. Will save you a few seconds every day :-)

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Michael

[sherazade]

?!?? While it can take half a minute, it should not spend minutes doing so. Did the initial scan finish?

I actually have to revise my previous post to some point. Yesterday I installed the official version 7.2 of SqueezeCenter, rebuilt the music library and tried to access the webinterface again. I've to admit that I was very impressed by the improvement in performance. What took very look with the previous version - loading the icons in the "Home" section (not the artwork) - now is finished in a few seconds. Thus loading the iniital screen without a playlist takes 18 seconds, which I think is ok.

Please make sure you've set Artwork Resampling to use the faster Resize algorithm. The 5 minutes spent to render the images are typical for the slower Resampling algorithm on the ReadyNAS. In fact that option was introduced solely because of the ReadyNAS...

I actually wasn't the artwork that took so long to be loaded but those tiny icons in the home section of the screen. Like "Music Library -> Artists".
Where can I find the artwork resampling setting? I know I changed it in the previous version but I'm can't find it anymore in the current one...

Yes, we're actively working on improving performance on low-power machines. Make sure you're running the latest 7.2 builds - nightly 7.2.1 might even be a tiny wee bit faster than 7.2.0. Will save you a few seconds every day :-)

It's great to hear that. I somewhere read that with version 7.3 of SqueezeCenter a complete redesign of the underlying database is planed. I'm really excited to see this version in action...

Best regards

[mherger]

> I actually wasn't the artwork that took so long to be loaded but those
> tiny icons in the home section of the screen. Like "Music Library ->
> Artists".

They're handled the same: we only have a large copy of the file in the package, but when accessed for the first time it's scaled down and stored in the server side cache.

> Where can I find the artwork resampling setting? I know I changed it in

Settings/Advanced/Performance

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Michael

[MrSinatra]

at a radio station i do things for, we have a readynas 1100 which we use to serve music to automation. i recently updated it to the latest fw and official 7.2 release.

hopefully soon it will be on the penn state backbone, and at that point, i plan to put a few of my own mp3 tunes on it just to see how it does. it only has 512megs of ram though. so should i upgrade it? and if so, what is the max and what memory should i use?

i will be very interested to see if the 1100 can power my SB at home, (256kbps mp3s).