Using Slimserver with High Defintion audio FLAC files

> The bad news is that the down-sampling and decoding that Slimserver does
> to play the files runs the NAS to 100%CPU and there is a lot of
> re-buffering going on at the Squeezebox. Looking at the performance
> dashboard on the NAS, whlle CPU is maxed out, memory allocation is <30%.
> While I can't tell whether the CPU is page faulting, I think the
> Slimserver needs more memory.

Why would you think memory was the issue when you say that CPU was maxed
out? It's the CPU. The downsampling of your tracks is hard work, and
your NAS not really powerful enough to do the task.

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Michael