[Freeflyer]

I have a server in the back room onto which I download some tv torrents occasionally. It's a G4 450mhz with 256Mb ram and a couple of big hard disks. I have a powerbook in the living room plugged into the network by ethernet, which has svideo out to the tv.

I have the servers hard drive mounted onto the powerbook and then play the file using vlc. I'm noticing that I get a fair bit of stuttering occasionally and I'm trying to figure out where bottleneck is.

The network is 100mbit so it shouldn't be the network connection, the powerbook is 1Ghz with a gig of ram so it's not the powerbook, which leaves the server. Is it more likely to be a lack of ram in the server, or is the server just a bit slow for this.

Cheers,

J.

[shortyes]

The bottleneck can be a bunch of things. THe HDD that are connected, are they doing anything when you try to access the data? Are the data cables for the HDD dedicated to just a single HDD or is it in a master/slave relationship? If M/S then if one HDD is doing something the other HDD might not have any BW available.

I would get 512mb at least if you do going to use it in the way you want.

CPU speed should be adaquate

[Freeflyer]

Thanks. Yes, the drives are M/S as they're the two internal drives. Didn't occur to me that the drives themselves may be the bandwidth problem. I'll have to look into that one.

Planning on adding some memory soon.

Cheers,

J.