FreeNAS NFS Share to raspberry pi (raspbmc)

[uncle_rufus]

I think it was actually the XBMC wiki and its recommended for use on the Pi.

Another thing to try although a minor PITA would be trying OpenElec

Yep, it's on my list of things to try for sure - but rather than scrap and re-install right now while it's usable I figured it was probably only a matter of time until the network interface craps out again and I'm forced to re-install anyway so I could try openELEC then... a week later it's still running fine

I'd also like to try installing to NFS (root on NFS), I know raspbmc has that as an option in the installer but I assume it's do-able with other distros as well

 

[uncle_rufus]

Update: So I'm giving advancedsettings.xml a bash right now... and I don't want to tempt fate but I'm playing the same file which froze last night and it hasn't frozen at the beginning...

I didn't go with the ~150Mb mentioned above though, because I did a little reading on the wiki and it sounds as though XBMC will use around 3x whatever is set, and ~450Mb of memory usage on a 256Mb device didn't sound good to me A few people seemed to have luck setting it to 10Mb (30Mb actual usage), and others recommend setting it to 0 (which uses the disk as a cache instead of the RAM). I'm going to give it a go with 10Mb and see how it handles things.

Cheers again for the tip

 

[Frozennova]

Good to hear that it has made an improvement. I had it set from day one after coming across it while researching so I never actually knew if it made a difference.