I looked on the Slim Devices website, but didn't see any mention of recommended
minimum CPU's for different OS's, but then again, I may have missed it. What
got me starting to think about this is that a while ago I noticed that
streaming music to my work computer starting skipping. When I think about it
now, the skipping probably started at the same time that I switched server
computers and also started using iTunes to rip CD's to AAC and not mp3.
The previous system was a K6-300 running FreeBSD 4.7. I switched to using a
spare iMac G3-350. With the iMac I've noticed that streaming mp3's doesn't seem
to be an issue, but streaming AAC's can result in skipping. Using "top", I've
noticed that when streaming mp3's perl seems to be the only related process
consume CPU and it averages ~18% CPU. When streaming AAC's, perl remains at
about the same level, but lame consumes ~50% CPU and mov123 ~5% CPU. So, ~75%
of the CPU is being consumed to either stream to HTTP or play on the Slimp3
device. This would seem to explain the skipping, especially the times when the
Slimp3 device was playing and I was streaming to work.
I'm curious if anyone else has data or information on CPU utilization for their
particular OS's.
Ron
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minimum CPU's for different OS's, but then again, I may have missed it. What
got me starting to think about this is that a while ago I noticed that
streaming music to my work computer starting skipping. When I think about it
now, the skipping probably started at the same time that I switched server
computers and also started using iTunes to rip CD's to AAC and not mp3.
The previous system was a K6-300 running FreeBSD 4.7. I switched to using a
spare iMac G3-350. With the iMac I've noticed that streaming mp3's doesn't seem
to be an issue, but streaming AAC's can result in skipping. Using "top", I've
noticed that when streaming mp3's perl seems to be the only related process
consume CPU and it averages ~18% CPU. When streaming AAC's, perl remains at
about the same level, but lame consumes ~50% CPU and mov123 ~5% CPU. So, ~75%
of the CPU is being consumed to either stream to HTTP or play on the Slimp3
device. This would seem to explain the skipping, especially the times when the
Slimp3 device was playing and I was streaming to work.
I'm curious if anyone else has data or information on CPU utilization for their
particular OS's.
Ron
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