[Gnump3d-users] high cpu usage with gnump3d under windows

[tobias appelo]

Hi there,

First of all I would like to say that this program is great!

I am using quite old systems to stream audio: (1 = celeron 300 mhz and 1 
= p3 550 mhz)
My experience until now is that the gnump3d server really runs slow if i 
use it under windows natively. However, if i use the cygwin tools 
performance is much better.
If i use the windows version the perl.exe process has almost constantly 
100% cpu usage while browsing through my music collection or when  I 
click on a mp3 file. As soon as the streaming starts (10 seconds later 
on the celeron machine) cpu usage becomes normal.

I have experimented with ActivePerl-5.8.6.811-MSWin32-x86-122208.msi and 
ActivePerl-5.8.1.807-MSWin32-x86.msi The newest version is a bit faster 
but still dramatically slow.
Any ideas ?
In the error gnump3d log file the only thing i see is something about 
numeric expressions:
Argument "f:/mp3/JAZZ/Blues for Coltrane (tribute) - Naima" isn't 
numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at 
c:\gnump3d2\lib/gnump3d/sorting.pm line 115.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at 
c:\gnump3d2\lib/gnump3d/sorting.pm line 115.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at 
c:\gnump3d2\lib/gnump3d/sorting.pm line 115.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at 
c:\gnump3d2\lib/gnump3d/sorting.pm line 115.
I saw on forums this error more often zo I don't think it's a problem

Bye,

Tobias