Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Couldn't RB be more DAAP friendly?

["Christophe Dehais" <christophe dehais gmail com>]

In my case, the UI completely blocks 2 or 3 seconds after startup when
monitoring is activated. As far as performance is concerned, I think
it's already quite good, considering my very slow network and the
amount of data to handle (about 40Gb of music, wifi). If monitoring
was completely done asynchronously, that would indeed be pretty usable
(still consuming a lot of network resources).


cheers,
Christophe



On 10/11/06, James Doc Livingston <doclivingston gmail com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 13:24 -0400, Peter Colijn wrote:
> > On 10/10/06, James Livingston <doclivingston gmail com> wrote:
> > > I'm not sure that there is much we can do about it; and as someone else
> > > mentioned, DAAP is much quicker because the server sends us just the
> > > metadata.
> >
> > Are we talking about import or just loading a pre-imported library? In
> > the second case, couldn't the metadata be cached locally? I'm not
> > necessarily saying that should be done [caching brings a bunch of
> > complexities] but it is a potential solution.
>
> I was talking about importing, for which DAAP is *much* faster because
> importing will be pulling all the music data (probably gigabytes) versus
> the DAAP metadata (a few hundred kb).
>
>
> Starting Rhythmbox, when the tracks on your library are on a NFS share,
> is a bit more complicated. First, Rhythmbox itself should start and read
> the library info from disk in the same amount of time - so the window
> with the track list should appear just as quick. A few seconds later
> Rhythmbox will check that all the tracks still exist and, if library
> watching is turned on, add directory monitors.
>
> Those latter two things can take a while on local hard disks, and
> obviously take a lot longer over NFS. We've tried to make RB use
> asynchronous operations where possible, but there might be some
> synchronous code paths which block the UI from being responsive.
>
> When saying "RB is slow to load", does this mean that it takes a while
> to finish loading but is responsive, or the UI isn't responsive and
> blocks while starting up?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> James "Doc" Livingston
> --
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>
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