2011-08-24, 17:11
So I tried this last night and got some interesting results. I decided to install MySQL on my very low power media server. It's running a single core Atom processor under Ubuntu. I got everything set up and got the dreaded performance hit in XBMC.
What's strange is the type of performance hit. Even navigating the home menu (going from System to Shutdown, for instance) would have a 15-30 second delay.
I tried the skip-name-resolve option in my.cnf and double-checked to make sure that Windows firewall was off on the HTPC machine. No change in performance. I should note that these boxes are connected via gigabit ethernet.
I decided to install MySQL on the Windows box and have the advancesettings file use localhost. Working fine now.
Could it be that Atom machine is just that slow? Why would it slow down all of XBMC (even settings menus) and not just the library?
What's strange is the type of performance hit. Even navigating the home menu (going from System to Shutdown, for instance) would have a 15-30 second delay.
I tried the skip-name-resolve option in my.cnf and double-checked to make sure that Windows firewall was off on the HTPC machine. No change in performance. I should note that these boxes are connected via gigabit ethernet.
I decided to install MySQL on the Windows box and have the advancesettings file use localhost. Working fine now.
Could it be that Atom machine is just that slow? Why would it slow down all of XBMC (even settings menus) and not just the library?