Performance issue - SMB/Shared Folders (mediaserver)

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If some of you are having some real 'bog downs', you may want to investigate your SMB and Shared Folder environment.

Basically, these devices scan your local network for media automatically and in turn tried to 'index' everything. This work really hits the CPU hard.

If you install OSMonitor, you'll see '/system/bin/mediaserver' with a high CPU usuage. I'm not sure right now how to disable it though. However, killing off the process makes the device really snappy.

It obviously indexes your internal and sdcard. It appears whenever you add or remove files or download new apps which create files on the public storage, it updates it's index.

I had a 300mb folder with thousands of small files and my mediaserver process went CPU crazy each time i installed an app.

smb should not be scanned by default.

If you look at /network folder, you will see a 0 byte file ".nomedia" - this prevents the system from scanning smb drives.

Originally Posted by sondeu

smb should not be scanned by default.

If you look at /network folder, you will see a 0 byte file ".nomedia" - this prevents the system from scanning smb drives.

That's a really good tip, thank you! I had done a copy of the Archos root over to my SDcard, that's what caused my mediaserver to peg out. It was only a few hundred mb, but there were a lot of files. Once I removed that off my sdcard, I was good.

Is there any way to add a .nomedia file to the directory where the Market downloads it's apps to? That should prevent the indexing that occurs every time you install a new app...

Originally Posted by skeeterfood

Is there any way to add a .nomedia file to the directory where the Market downloads it's apps to? That should prevent the indexing that occurs every time you install a new app...

Assuming that would work, you'd have to do a temp root, then push the .nomedia file to the /data (or /data/data and /data/app) folders. I think .nomedia acts recursively and adding it to '/data' would do the trick.

what is the purpose of having the indexing of files at all? why not just read the directory when you open your file manager???

are directories with the .nomedia file are still read by the filemanager? can you still browse to them and open files within the directory?

This is not connected to Archos, this was introduced by google for use in Music and Gallery.

The first phones where a little slow indexing the memory and this way after putting something on the phone it would after some time show up in the std player with thumbnails and so on.

is it possible to turn off this scanning and indexing completely?

Only if you have the sources and access to /system