At 1:32 PM -0700 10/24/01, Byan, Stephen wrote:
>I hope to use this machine as the central repository for our MP3's, but I'm
>a bit worried about the performance of the Apple File Protocol in netatalk.
>When I did a finder copy of our MP3 collection to the NetBSD server, I only
>got a data-rate of about 333 KBytes/sec.

Hi Steve,
I just did some extremely rough calculations on some songs in my 
iTunes directory...I went to my CDs and chose a CD that had song 
length on it. I found the time in seconds (whole minutes * 60, plus 
the "extra" seconds). Then I did a "get info" on the song's iTunes 
file. Well, the file size (in k) divided by the seconds should give 
the required transmission rate. I did about a half-dozen songs and 
all were about 20k/sec. Given that, I would hardly be worried about 
333kB/sec :-).

For instance, Enter Sandman, on S&M is 7:39 long...or 459 secs. The 
file is 819584 bits or 8195 bytes (erring on the liberal side). 
8195/459=17.85 kB/sec. At that rate, you can be playing a different 
song in every room of your house ;)

Hope this alleviates your fears,
Mike
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