Not quite: bash treats Ctrl+D (eof) as time to quit. For the player, you need Ctrl+C (interrupt).

So, Ctrl-D is the equivalent of typing "exit" at the bash prompt?

It looks like the most of the differences between the advice given in this thread and what was already in the FAQ are cosmetic, such as:

- Ctrl-D instead of typing "exit"
- Deleting all the database files by hand before asking the player to rebuild them.

However, the one difference I see that might not be cosmetic is:

- swapon /swapfile

That means that you turn on swap before rebuilding the database. But here's my thinking as to why it's not in the FAQ:

The entry in the FAQ is intended to be a fix for when things go wrong, meant to be run once and then Emplode+Player would take care of things thereafter. But Emplode+Player don't turn on swap before rebuilding the database, so if you need to turn on swap to accomplish that, then something else is wrong. In other words, if the situation is dire enough to need swap to rebuild the database, you might get one good database rebuild from the shell prompt, but then the next time Emplode triggers a database rebuild, it will fail because swap isn't on.

Am I on the right track here?

Yep.

Hi,

Thanks for the information.

Tony, it looks like you got what you needed.

BTW, is there a way that I can check the size of the playlists to see if I have allocated enough ReserveCache size? I want to avoid the nomem-xxxx errors in the future by right-sizing the reserve based on the playlist or database.

Thanks,

Ross

So what about turning on swap? Should I add that to the FAQ? What about the cases where Emplode+Player want to rebuild the database and they don't turn on swap?