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Re: What is your Subsonic setup?

Postby martyscholes » Wed May 23, 2012 1:00 pm

gsibble wrote:Why does everyone have such huge hardware running Subsonic? I never run into any issues with my setup.


That's a very good question, because Subsonic is relatively lightweight. In my case, SS is one of many services running on a server used by a family of 5. Among other things, there we have five thin-client stations around the house, many of which are mutihead. Each of my kids is running at least an instance of Windows and maybe some Linux. I work from home and keep at least three instances of Windows and one instance of Ubuntu running. We also keep pyTivo and Streambaby services running for the Tivos. I started web business last year and host a bug tracker and a Service Desk web service for my partners.

The point is that we have a lot of other stuff going on and need the horsepower of the server. Subsonic adds very little.
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Re: What is your Subsonic setup?

Postby tycoonbob » Thu May 24, 2012 5:14 pm

martyscholes wrote:
gsibble wrote:Why does everyone have such huge hardware running Subsonic? I never run into any issues with my setup.


That's a very good question, because Subsonic is relatively lightweight. In my case, SS is one of many services running on a server used by a family of 5. Among other things, there we have five thin-client stations around the house, many of which are mutihead. Each of my kids is running at least an instance of Windows and maybe some Linux. I work from home and keep at least three instances of Windows and one instance of Ubuntu running. We also keep pyTivo and Streambaby services running for the Tivos. I started web business last year and host a bug tracker and a Service Desk web service for my partners.

The point is that we have a lot of other stuff going on and need the horsepower of the server. Subsonic adds very little.


While this is definitely true for me (since my home network is basically a lab environment for me to do testing--I'm an IT Systems Engineering Consultant, so keeping up with the latest and greatest and knowing the in and outs of what we do is important), that is not the main reason. The main reason is that many people want to use SubSonic for video serving. Video serving as in 720p/1080i/1080p, with anything from 2ch audio to 7.1 DTS...which takes a lot of CPU to transcode. RAM is so cheap, why not have at least 8GB in everything?
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What is your Subsonic setup?

Postby Chad » Fri May 25, 2012 3:48 am

Dell T3400, 2 something gig Core2 Duo, 4GB mem, Ubuntu 11.04 Headless.

64 GB Crucial SSD for os and software

2x 2TB WD Black RAID 1 single partition for subsonic and music storage

2x 2TB WD Black RAID1 dual partition. Partition #1 FTP, Partition #2 family share.

Seems to do allright. Before that I was rocking a P4. Poor thing ran like a trooper but it did get beat up pretty bad in the transcoding.
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Re: What is your Subsonic setup?

Postby GJ51 » Fri May 25, 2012 4:19 am

tycoonbob wrote:
martyscholes wrote:
gsibble wrote:Why does everyone have such huge hardware running Subsonic? I never run into any issues with my setup.


That's a very good question, because Subsonic is relatively lightweight. In my case, SS is one of many services running on a server used by a family of 5. Among other things, there we have five thin-client stations around the house, many of which are mutihead. Each of my kids is running at least an instance of Windows and maybe some Linux. I work from home and keep at least three instances of Windows and one instance of Ubuntu running. We also keep pyTivo and Streambaby services running for the Tivos. I started web business last year and host a bug tracker and a Service Desk web service for my partners.

The point is that we have a lot of other stuff going on and need the horsepower of the server. Subsonic adds very little.


While this is definitely true for me (since my home network is basically a lab environment for me to do testing--I'm an IT Systems Engineering Consultant, so keeping up with the latest and greatest and knowing the in and outs of what we do is important), that is not the main reason. The main reason is that many people want to use SubSonic for video serving. Video serving as in 720p/1080i/1080p, with anything from 2ch audio to 7.1 DTS...which takes a lot of CPU to transcode. RAM is so cheap, why not have at least 8GB in everything?


Nothing - as long as your using a 64 bit OS. :wink:
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Re: What is your Subsonic setup?

Postby tycoonbob » Fri May 25, 2012 11:59 am

GJ51 wrote:
Nothing - as long as your using a 64 bit OS. :wink:


This is true. Something I overlook a lot, because I (for some reason) expect everyone to be running x64. ;)
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What is your Subsonic setup?

Postby Chad » Fri May 25, 2012 12:07 pm

There's still some of us running "yesterday's technology today. "
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Re: What is your Subsonic setup?

Postby GJ51 » Fri May 25, 2012 1:44 pm

I think that one of the best attributes of Subsonic is that it can be used on just about any platform you want to use and be tweaked to get acceptable performance for that environment. I've helped many users just recycle dust collecting hardware soley so they could have a 24/7 Subsonic server that didn't cost them anything to put together.

Certainly, if you want to transcode high quality video you need power, butmany users are content with just using the music capabilities and they can get great results using very low power setups that consume very little energy to keep up 24/7. One of the best platforms is an old HP Media Smart server with a dual core CPU and a coupls GB ram. It only draws about 50 - 60 W and if you've got the software cleaned up and bug free it runs great for just a dedicated music server and some lower quality video qhile only costing about the same as leaving a light bulb on.

But, I confess - I do love power too.
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Re: What is your Subsonic setup?

Postby beretta93 » Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:57 am

Hi guys,

Currently running Subsonic on a home made Nas :

Zacate E350
4Go DDR3 1333mhz
4TB of media files (audio & videos)

What I've observed :

- transcoding from mpeg2 produces heavy load on CPU (100% all along)
- transcoding from H264 is a bit lighter thanks to hardware acceleration but still big load (around 80%- 90%)

So I'm willing to upgrade to some sandy/ivy bridge configuration.

I was first heading toward some light H61+Celeron or Pentium, but these do not support Intel quick sync technology. Right now quick sync is not implemented in latest ffmpeg builds so it's useless...

So I was wondering : does this quick sync is worth the investment for future builds? Since it's really lighting CPU load for encoding processes in particular, it may be worth betting on it...

What would be your advice?
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Re: What is your Subsonic setup?

Postby beretta93 » Thu Aug 09, 2012 2:00 pm

Regarding hardware accelerated transcoding process, here is an interesting article which compare the 3 current solutions (still young) from AMD/Nvidia/Intel :

http://techreport.com/articles.x/23324/1

Very interesting article.
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Re: What is your Subsonic setup?

Postby rastapi » Thu Aug 16, 2012 4:59 pm

Hi there,

I've recently spent quite some time trawling these forums so I thought it was probably best to introduce my setup.

Subsonic-4.7.beta3.deb

Raspberry Pi

Raspbian OS

16gb samsung class 10 sd card

2 usbs currently, as I move stuff around:

1 x hp 32gb usb
1 x integral 16gb usb
(both full)

Wired, and running locally and externally. When java settles down works no problems at all and seems nippy and easy to use over browser, minisub, and isub. But as my other posts have illustrated I am having problems with java (just running the openjdk-6-jre).

Controlling through SSH, and filezilla, as uploads seem to work better with filezilla- faster (?) and no missing files (subsonic bug?).

As I said, when it's working it is brilliant- and just sits there on top of my amplifier.

When streaming to phones and browsers and is working good, runs very low cpu% - at 5%, moving up to 40%.
When bad- goes up to 98% cpu and is unusable.

Seems to go a bit screwy after I give in to the temptation to hack the java themes, or maybe after a sudo service subsonic restart.

Transcoding mp3s, avis fine. Not doing ogg and flac I think. I haven't had problems with transcoding (yet). After first installing 4.6 a dialogue box noted some codecs were missing.

Fiddling with memory split between cpu and gpu is something I've thought about, but wouldn't know which way to budge it...

Swapping to a different version of java is another possibility (if I only knew anything at all about that sort of thing...)

Overall :lol:
4.7.beta3
Raspberry Pi (model b)
ARM1176JZF-S 700 MHz processor
256 mb RAM
Rasbian OS
100gb (and growing...)
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Re: What is your Subsonic setup?

Postby martyscholes » Sun May 12, 2013 3:30 am

HP DL585 G2
4x dual-core Opteron 2.4GHz (8 cores)
60GB RAM
Solaris 11.1
2x 73GB internal SAS disks
4x 2gb fibre ports feeding 2x Silkworm FC switches
2x Storedge A5200 arrays as split loops (8x 1gb links), 44 disks, each 500GB
All storage protected by ZFS
2x gigabit ethernet
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Re: What is your Subsonic setup?

Postby gurutech » Sun May 12, 2013 3:43 am

Updated my setup (actually did this a while ago, just remembering to post now...)

Original setup: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7147&start=60#p36357

Current setup:

Running Madsonic 5.0 Beta 2 on a VIRTUAL CentOS 6.4 / using 4GB RAM and 2 out of 6 cores
Media stored on host computer, which is an AMD 6-core CPU, 32GB RAM, 1.5TB storage (500gb OS, 1TB Data)

699 all artists
414 album artists
1,642 albums
64 genres
21,332 songs
220.16 GB (~ 3,180 hours)
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Postby fonsoy » Tue May 14, 2013 9:28 am

fonsoy wrote:Core i3 2100
Asrock H67-V PRO
Highpoint RocketRAID 2322 doing raid5.
Samsung HD204UI 2TB HDD x 4

Running on Windows Server 2008R2

Very fast setup compared to what I had, used to have an Atom, hopefully I can use this machine for quite some years. I get 300MB/s read and 180MB/s writespeeds.

Aha, I upgraded already.

Now I'm running a SuperMicro X9SCM-F, with an Intel E3 1220V2.
32GM ECC Ram.
RAID controller is a IBM M1015
Samsung HD204UI 2TB x5 + 3x Hitachi 5k4 (4TB).
All is running on VMware ESXi. The RAID controller is passed to a ZFSguru VM, to be able to run ZFS. That machine has 16GB RAM.
The volumes are then passed via iSCSI to a Windows 2012 VM. That VM is running subsonic, and has two out of 4 cores, with 8GB RAM.
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Re: What is your Subsonic setup?

Postby Cook66 » Tue May 14, 2013 9:51 am

My hardware isn't really all that relevant, it's a custom built near top of the line (as of 2011) Windows 7 high tower. I also have a Direct Attached Storage with 24 3TB drives connected to it which gives me a total of 36 3TB drives for media storage.

The software is much more interesting.

Movies
I use CouchPotato to download and sort movies. Some I also do manually as CP doesn't always live up to my expectations.
I use Ember Media Manager to scrape imdb for metadata, folder and fan art, it also renames the movies to what I want.

The process is pretty much automated, but it's still in it's infancy as I only recently set it up.
I'm also working on a script that will make symbolic links subsonic can use to sort the movies into genres.

TV Shows
This is my favorite part of my setup. It uses sickbeard to download and manage my shows and I don't need to to a thing.
I have a custom built script to sort the shows into genres and remove junk folders from the subsonic search, using symlinks here as well.

Music and Audiobooks
I have manually downloaded and tagged about 500GB of music and 300GB of audiobooks. I looked into using Headphones, but it was severly lacking last time I tried, too many errors in the downloads and tagging. Everything here was added manually, but should an automatic system become good enough then I'm going to jump on it right away.

I also use a bunch of different software to manage RAIDS, backup, sorting, downloading and streaming.
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Postby deftdrummer » Fri Aug 16, 2013 9:02 pm

I have a fairly decent W7 gaming rig that also serves as my main subsonic host. Can anyone recommend some settings for low power consumption while I'm away from home?

I just have a problem with leaving my rig on all day and night just for subsonic. I had gotten WOL working briefly before but I'm not interested in throwing another wrench into things all over again.

Basically what I'm looking for are some ideas from those of you who use your main computer as the primary dedicated server, but fret about leaving it on 24 /7.
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