I’m running an IBM ThinkPad 1.7 MHz Laptop with 512 Ram using XP and Weather Watcher as the only running programs. There are times it seems that the computer just doesn’t want to keep up. I was thinking that it might be too old of a computer to run the program, but now I know that Zara and XP are both resource hogs and are fighting for the processor. Now that I know why, I won’t worry about trying to fix the lag problem on my test machine.
I was thinking of using a shared computer already set up as a file server in my house to run the program on to keep things simple, but after learning this I think I’m going to have to set up the radio program on its own machine and move the music files over to it. Oh well, I was looking for a way to use an old Gateway case that I’ve had for more years than I care to remember anyway. I’ll just pick up a new mother board combo, power supply, and a couple gig of memory when I can afford it to and build a dedicated broadcast machine.
Thank you for letting me know about the processor issue!
-Scott H.
I have Zara running on an old Ipaq 500 mHz machine with 256 meg RAM. The OS is XP.
No audio processing but I am running Shoutcast streaming, Weather Watcher for current WX updates, ZaraWebRDS for online "Now Playing" list and NIST NetTime for time sync. Also, WGET automated by Windows Scheduler downloads canned content for FSN newscasts and NOAA WX forecasts every hour.
And just to push the limits some of my programming streams in live while pushing two streams out. One hosted by my computer and one by an online service.
So far seems stable enough.
I was told in another thread I started that my problem might be a glitched installation. I’m going to save my files on a portable hard drive, totally wipe the hard drive, and re-install everything from a fresh load to make sure there is no other hidden programs doing something in the back ground and see what it does.
I'll let everyone know how it goes,
-Scott H.
Well, everything was finished on the reload about an hour ago. It's running ok right now, but I'm giving it all night running before I call it good.
I'll tell everyone how it is working and if the problem is fixed tomorrow sometime.
-Scott H.