On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> > What about serving MP3 files (not playing them of course) to my iMac
> > and other machines?  I'd like to add a headless and diskless mp3
> > jukebox (maybe a NetBSD/i386 machine) to my network in the future.
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> I'd look at a Quadra for any kind of large file server system, I think.
> My IIci is fine for small files over AppleShare but I think I would over-
> load it a bit with a lot of multimedia traffic like MP3 service.
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> This is all just My Opinion!

I don't think it'll be a problem. I had a IIsi (20Mhz '030) running as my
MP3 server until it recently died due to HD failure. The thing was
supporting about 5 simultaneous 128KB-192KB streams okay although CPU
utilization got a bit high (around 80-90%). This was streaming off apache.

Leonard

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