Server performance issue (SMB and local)
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:18 amHello!
First of all, i have to say that SubSonic seems to be exactly what i searched for.
Just - i got a little problem.
I set up a Server on my box @ home - Atom D525 with 2x 1,8GHz and 2 GB RAM - not very much, but it SHOULD be enough.
My goal is to stream music and audiobooks to my and my GF's Android phone.
Most of my content is on a NAS storage, attached wired by a 100mB connection - theoretically i think that's enough too.
So i set up the server according to several tips @ this forum and on other places on the net, mainly the thing with the service giving correct user-rights ad accessing the shares via UNC.
The problem is - as far as i can tell now, the Android client has huge problems when accessing directories with more than 5-6 mp3s. I keep getting "Network errors" - i think from some reason the server is just too slow, but i have no idea why.
Initially i thought it's because of the NAS, but when i copied the files to the local disk and added it to an own folder in SubSonic, the problem stood the same.
Also there is not much difference if i connect via browser - it does not time out like it does in Android, but it takes AGES to just add files to the playlist if there are more than a handful in one directory.
Strange thing is, if there is only 1 or 2 files in a directory, it works ok - not smooth, but well enough.
And the third thing which i just found out while i am writing these lines:
I had 4 samba folders with quite some content shared. Now i removed the folders (not only deactivated - that did not help, really delete) from the SubSonic config, and now the performance seems to be improved a LOT.
So my question is:
- any tips regarding performance?
- is my assumption correct that performance drops a LOT if you add SMB-shares, even if you dont access them?
- why is that so. means: why does SubSonic obviously access the SMB-Shares (or any other added file) if you access some completely different directory?
- which internal DB is used to store the shares, can it be replaced with my own DB (got a MySQL server running here anyway)
- can subsonic make a difference between files located local and files located somewhere over the net (f.e. "If they are not local, do only scan them once")
I think SubSonic is a great piece of work - and if those performance issues are solved, it could really hit the top.
First of all, i have to say that SubSonic seems to be exactly what i searched for.
Just - i got a little problem.
I set up a Server on my box @ home - Atom D525 with 2x 1,8GHz and 2 GB RAM - not very much, but it SHOULD be enough.
My goal is to stream music and audiobooks to my and my GF's Android phone.
Most of my content is on a NAS storage, attached wired by a 100mB connection - theoretically i think that's enough too.
So i set up the server according to several tips @ this forum and on other places on the net, mainly the thing with the service giving correct user-rights ad accessing the shares via UNC.
The problem is - as far as i can tell now, the Android client has huge problems when accessing directories with more than 5-6 mp3s. I keep getting "Network errors" - i think from some reason the server is just too slow, but i have no idea why.
Initially i thought it's because of the NAS, but when i copied the files to the local disk and added it to an own folder in SubSonic, the problem stood the same.
Also there is not much difference if i connect via browser - it does not time out like it does in Android, but it takes AGES to just add files to the playlist if there are more than a handful in one directory.
Strange thing is, if there is only 1 or 2 files in a directory, it works ok - not smooth, but well enough.
And the third thing which i just found out while i am writing these lines:
I had 4 samba folders with quite some content shared. Now i removed the folders (not only deactivated - that did not help, really delete) from the SubSonic config, and now the performance seems to be improved a LOT.
So my question is:
- any tips regarding performance?
- is my assumption correct that performance drops a LOT if you add SMB-shares, even if you dont access them?
- why is that so. means: why does SubSonic obviously access the SMB-Shares (or any other added file) if you access some completely different directory?
- which internal DB is used to store the shares, can it be replaced with my own DB (got a MySQL server running here anyway)
- can subsonic make a difference between files located local and files located somewhere over the net (f.e. "If they are not local, do only scan them once")
I think SubSonic is a great piece of work - and if those performance issues are solved, it could really hit the top.