Re: [Banshee-List] Speed up Banshee for old PCs?

["Gabriel Burt" <gabriel burt gmail com>]

2008/5/29 Geoff <register waitehere com>:
> Banshee 0.99 is too slow to use on the old PC that I use as a soundbridge,
> like 60+ secs between track playback.  I use 0.13 and it's acceptable. (set
> up is xubuntu on a 300Mhz, 128MB laptop).  0.99 looks really great and I'd
> like to use it, but as it is it won't work for me.
>
> At a guess, I'd say the problem appears to be massive amounts of disk /
> memory swapping while it searches for the next track - almost as if its
> stepping through a database stored on disc
>
> On the Ubuntu forums, I posted this issue a few weeks ago and was << I think
> there are plans ahead to reduce the CPU and memory footprint of Banshee when
> it approaches 1.0. Right now we're still in Beta 1.>> (I've since tried
> 99.2)
>
> Questions:  Is this a known issue?  Will it be fixed?  Is there anything I
> can do to make 0.99 useable?

Why did you post twice?  You said you tried Beta 2 and still have this issue?

Gabriel