[TriLUG] icecast and xmms

[Jon Carnes]

I'm skeptical, but in light of other testimonials I'll believe it.  
Personally I've only had poor streaming performance on any low cpu system 
running an IDE subsystem - unless the loads are low and the system is 
dedicated to the task. 

Upgrading the disk subsystem fixed "skipping" access to streaming problem 
for me.  YMMV,

Jon
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On Thursday 06 December 2001 17:40, you wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Jon Carnes wrote:
> > What is your disk subsystem.  For streaming Audio, you will need SCSI.
> > Otherwise it will be skippy...
>
> Only if there are a large number of clients.  IDE drives are more than
> capable of handling several streams at once -- heck, a modern UDMA drive
> can handle several streams of DV-quality VIDEO at once.  I would only
> worry about this if I were setting up a server for >10 simultaneous
> clients. Even then, it would seem that network bandwidth would be the
> bottleneck unless it's all gigabit ethernet or something.  (Though his
> processor speed of 200Mhz is more of a bottleneck for IDE compared to
> SCSI.)
>
> --Jeremy
>
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