Slug Capabilities

[assimacos]

Hello,

This is my first post to the group. I have been lurking for about a year since I bought my slug.

This little device is running slugOS and is used as an nfs file server and a torrent client (rtorrent).  I am also running SSH and screen.

I am thinking of adding an IMAP server and a media server (probably mediatomb).  Is that an acceptable load or am I asking to much?

I am especially concerned about memory. Sometimes rtorrent terminates unexpectedly and I suspect memory outage.

Thank you for your replies
Antonis

[Brian Wood-4]

On Tuesday 08 September 2009 11:51:07 assimacos wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This is my first post to the group. I have been lurking for about a year
> since I bought my slug.
>
> This little device is running slugOS and is used as an nfs file server and
> a torrent client (rtorrent).  I am also running SSH and screen.
>
> I am thinking of adding an IMAP server and a media server (probably
> mediatomb).  Is that an acceptable load or am I asking to much?

I think Mediatomb will at least try to transcode a file to a format your
device can use. The Slug is definitely not up to transcoding video (it
doesn't even have a floating point unit).

If you don't have to transcode it might work, but I suspect not.

--
Brian Wood
bwood@...

[Christopher Arndt]

assimacos schrieb:
> I am especially concerned about memory. Sometimes rtorrent terminates unexpectedly and I suspect memory outage.

You can set a maximum memory usage for rtorrent in its config file
~/.rtorrent.rc

I have set it to

max_memory_usage = 20971520

and rtorrent crashes very seldom any more since I added this config setting.


Chris

[jl.050877]

On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 05:51:07PM -0000, assimacos wrote:
> I am especially concerned about memory.  Sometimes rtorrent
>terminates unexpectedly and I suspect memory outage.

     I've had that happen.  The kernel kills processes when it runs
out of ram+swap.  Fortunately, the solution is easy: add more swap.

[smodge123]

I run Debian (lenny) on mine and have samba and vsftpd running in the background.  I schedule rtorrent nightly with screen and terminate it in the morning but it runs rock solid with no drop outs.  On top of this I use fuppes as my media streamer for use with my Xbox 360 and keep the daemon going all the time.  All in all the slug handles things quite well.  I noticed a pick up in rtorrent performance when I "overclocked" it to 266 Mhz and about the only time the slug gets a little bogged down is when I try to shuffle through a video on the 360 while rtorrent is thrashing the disk.  I tried mediatomb but it didn't suit my needs.  I can't comment on running an IMAP server but can't imagine this would be too heavy.  Hope this helps and good luck!


--- In nslu2-linux@..., "assimacos" <assimaco@...> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> This is my first post to the group. I have been lurking for about a year since I bought my slug.
>
> This little device is running slugOS and is used as an nfs file server and a torrent client (rtorrent).  I am also running SSH and screen.
>
> I am thinking of adding an IMAP server and a media server (probably mediatomb).  Is that an acceptable load or am I asking to much?
>
> I am especially concerned about memory. Sometimes rtorrent terminates unexpectedly and I suspect memory outage.
>
> Thank you for your replies
> Antonis
>