[numanoids]

Just an update from my end, as much as everything went ok, the GUI has slowed to an absolute crawl. The system takes ages to wake up the screen if in screensaver mode and just hit stop on a film and it took a full minute+ for it to go blank, pause for a while, load part of the GUI, then eventually the rest.

My library is on a MySQL database which never posed this kind of delay before on Alpha5, system load was up at above 3 during this operation.

Also where has the XBMC init script gone? Should it be gone or has it been replaced with something else? - ok i see these have been switched to upstart scripts. Not a fan of upstart but guess i need to roll with the times.

I may try going for a clean install but I'm seriously considering rolling back to alpha5 as it was much more fluid than this.

This is all on a 256MB Pi and an 8GB CLass 6 SD card that has been in the Pi since pretty much the day I got it so I know the system setup has been stable for almost a year.