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

["Christian Hergert" <christian hergert gmail com>]

Any chance you guys can get some numbers on the possible paging
issues? If you could run banshee-1 without too many other apps running
and get a sample with sysstat im sure that'd help out.

# sample every 2 seconds for 60 seconds
$ sar -B 2 60

The page fault numbers I'm sure will be interesting with only 128MB.

-- Christian

2008/5/28 Hyperair <hyperair gmail com>:
> Gabriel Burt wrote:
>> 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
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> Actually I do notice a rather large CPU spike when changing between
> songs. If I flip through multiple songs (click next repeatedly, maybe 5
> times in a row) Banshee will hang for an extended period of time before
> working again. If that could be fixed I would be very thankful.
>
> Then there's also the searching which spikes the CPU up until I'm done
> typing my query. I think there should be a slight timer before you start
> searching, so that you don't keep beginning the search before the search
> string has been completely typed.
>
> --
> Hyperair
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