On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 04:11:47PM -0700, Chas Posinoff wrote:
> 
> Ian - you might want to read through the list archives - I've seen 
> someone post such baselines a few months ago.
> 
Thanks, I'll take a look.

> Problem is, there is not a ton of activity on this list and so the issue 
> went unexamined, afaik ;  )  I think it would be great to pin down - I 
> am hoping this qube2 will provide decent bandwidth for webhosting + 
> audio streaming. Can anyone share experiences with that kind of setup?
> 
Well I use mine for hosting a few sites behind a 1Mb/256kb cable modem and
it works just fine (apart from the lack of >25 day uptime !).  The sites
have SHTML and PHP code on them, Apache uses mod_bandwidth and mod_gzip to
ease the lack of outgoing bandwidth and I manage to serve Gb of data
monthly.  Audio streaming isn't something that I've done too much of - I
have used daapd and Zeroconf to play mp3 files via iTunes, but that quickly
maxed out the CPU and gave hiccups in playback every 5 minutes or so.  I
then used netatalk to mount the directory and QuickTime to play the mp3 and
it never got above 9% usage for netatalk, so there's just some code tweaking
needed in daapd to reduce the load.

I did look and putting a soundcard in the system, but before I got around to
trying my recompiled kernel there were a few posts from people who had done
just that and couldn't get the audio to work properly, so I didn't bother
with that.

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ian.
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