[clue-tech] Low-memory laptop for a jukebox

[David L. Willson]

Whenever you do a network mount, make totally friggin' ~sure~ you specify the rsize and
wsize options.  The default valuess seem to provide sub-optimal performance.

Example: mount -t nfs myserver:/shared /shared -o rsize=8192,wsize=8192

Note: There is no space in the comma-delimited mount options list.

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:34:43 -0600, Matt Gushee wrote
> Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> 
> >> I think you will have issues with network latency if you try to play
> >> the tunes directly from the network drive. I don't have much
> >> experience with network file systems, but offhand I think you'll
> >> probably want to do something like copy the song to a temp directory
> >> on the jukebox before playing it.
> > 
> > Nah, any reasonable 100Mb network can stream high-quality audio without 
> > breaking a sweat.  I've got a central data server with my entire music 
> > collection, and mount it via NFS to several Linux machines throughout 
> > the house.  I can listen to music in my office while my wife listens to 
> > (other) music in hers, and the kids are upstairs listening to still 
> > other tunes.  I don't even have hiccups in the streams.
> 
> Okay, I guess I was mistaken. In my limited experience with NFS, I've 
> seen serious delays in operations like copying small text files--but 
> that was a few years ago, and the systems involved could well have been 
> badly configured. I'm really not a networking guy.
> 
> -- 
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