Speed up Subsonic

[DJRoy]

I'm using Subsonic for one day now. Friends and collegas are enthousiasic about the application. The only minor so far is the speed of handling whitin the interface. I've indexed all the songs (it's about 30 gig) and my hardware and bandwith capebilities are very good.

Is there something I can do or should do to speedup?

[Concept211]

I've been using it for about a week now with 127.44 GB of MP3s indexed and I think the interface is fairly fast and have had no problems at all.

Do you have a ton of people logged onto it at once and streaming? My only thought is that maybe your bandwidth is being hogged by too many concurrent streams or your machine has too many processes running at once which could be slowing down the serving of pages to the UI.

Maybe Sindre has some other ideas...

[DJRoy]

I only share my music with a very select group of friends. So there will be two or three users max at same time working on my webserver.

The 30 gigs are stored on a NAS server. However if a browse on my machine via explorer everything works very fast. When i browse within Subsonic the interface is using much time.

Thanks for thinking with me..

[Concept211]

I wonder if maybe there's a bottleneck between the web server and your NAS server? What speed network are you running between the two?

[DJRoy]

I'm running 100Mbit via a Belkin Vision 1 router.
The speed of Subsonic externally is the same when I use a connection via my internal adres 192.168.1.x . So I'm thinking that this has nothing to do with network speed.

I'm using a Vista 64 bit computer. Are there any known issues with 64 bit?

[Concept211]

Well, I'm stumped. I'm not sure what else it could be. Maybe we'll leave this up to Sindre to answer this one. (Last I heard he was going on vacation, so it might be a while before you heard from him.)

[kapz]

I have 500gigs indexed running on a AMD DualCore 2.0Ghz/2gig ram and have no issues with speed.

I changed the allocation of Apache memorya while back because I was getting some hangups. Go into the Apache Tomcat Properties. Click the Java tab. Change the Initial Memory pool, Max Memory Pool and Thread Stack size. I have mine set to 256,256,256.

This might not help, but if you look click the "help" icon in subsonic you will see how much memory subsonic is using on the server.

[BrianDelShasta]

If you're using the "Windows Installer" instance of the program it uses the Jetty web server. I was only able to get throughput of about 2mbps over a full fast e connection. I installed tomcat and quit using Jetty and it resolved the issue.

[homer2k]

I was having the same problem to with my server. I have about 200 GB of music on an external 1TB Drive. The cause of my problem had to do with my Dell Poweredge 2650 not running the drive at the correct standard, it was running it as a USB 1.1 instead of 2.0, I know the circumstances are different but I would check to make sure that the NAS is connecting at 100Mb/s and not something slower. You could be getting the faster browsing speed because windows is caching the data.

[DJRoy]

OK. I've checked all the suggestions you've given me. Subsonic is still reacting very slow. So my guess is that it is the Jetty server.

Can anyone help me with disableling the jetty server and enabling subsonic in Apache Tomcat. I don't know how to do that.

Thanks again.