- Jun 16, 2004
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Hi all,
I'm trying to keep a lot of MP3's (all ripped legally, I'm happy to say) on a Linux server and access it using OS X (10.6.4). Right now I'm accessing it through a SAMBA server, and it's very slow. If I SSH into the machine, I can "ls" large directories almost instantly; in SAMBA a refresh of a directory with a lot of files, etc. can take 20 seconds or more.
It seems like I might want to be using a different file server here -- I don't necessarily have to have Windows machines access it -- although it would be a nice option. Is there something else I should be looking at?
Edit: Some info that I forgot to include. The Linux server is an Atom processor w/ only 512 MB of RAM, running Ubuntu server 10.04. It seems like it's processor-limited. Running 'top' on it shows that just trying to view files in the Finder on the Mac is taking 93-100 % of processor time.
Thanks in advance.
I'm trying to keep a lot of MP3's (all ripped legally, I'm happy to say) on a Linux server and access it using OS X (10.6.4). Right now I'm accessing it through a SAMBA server, and it's very slow. If I SSH into the machine, I can "ls" large directories almost instantly; in SAMBA a refresh of a directory with a lot of files, etc. can take 20 seconds or more.
It seems like I might want to be using a different file server here -- I don't necessarily have to have Windows machines access it -- although it would be a nice option. Is there something else I should be looking at?
Edit: Some info that I forgot to include. The Linux server is an Atom processor w/ only 512 MB of RAM, running Ubuntu server 10.04. It seems like it's processor-limited. Running 'top' on it shows that just trying to view files in the Finder on the Mac is taking 93-100 % of processor time.
Thanks in advance.
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