Hi,
I'm trying to set up an icecast 1.3.11 server for our Medicine School.
It's on a PIII 1Ghz, with 256 Mb RAM on a BiPro board (single proc yet),
and a 3 COM 10/100 NIC. Unfortunately the NIC is plugged in a 10 Mbits/s
hub for now. It's under GNU/Linux (Debian Woody) + a 2.4.10 kernel.
The load of the server is very low, because there's almost only icecast
running + ices which streams a playlist in 32 Kbps, 32 KHz mono, here's the
output of free + uptime:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 256360 252544 3816 0 5788 189748
-/+ buffers/cache: 57008 199352
Swap: 256968 0 256968
17:58:49 up 1 day, 2:32, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Our School is plugged to the Net with a 10 Mbits/s dedicated line,
and the network load is low: on the LAN part it's around 400 Kbits/s.
I encounter several buffering problems with several tools: realplayer,
xmms, mpg123, WinAMP, reported by people outside our Network, but
even seen by me from the LAN. Often these tools stop to play and fill
their buffers, and this filling is very slow...
On the same LAN I've got 2 web servers with several virtual hosts with no
problem so far (I understand it's easier to encounter any problem
when streaming)
I'm sure it's not an icecast problem because I've set up my
own icecast server (same version, same playlist) on an ISP's server
and all is OK, nevertheless maybe some of you had encountered the
same problems and could tell me where to look at.
Could this be a faulty router somewhere or something else ?
Thanks in advance.
Jerome Alet - alet@unice.fr
Medicine School of Nice, France
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> I'm sure it's not an icecast problem because I've set up my > own icecast server (same version, same playlist) on an ISP's server > and all is OK, nevertheless maybe some of you had encountered the > same problems and could tell me where to look at.You didn't say what you were originating the stream with. What tool are you using for that (it might be the culprit)?> Could this be a faulty router somewhere or something else ?The first thing that came to mind was the 10/100 - 10 mix. Most of your switches and hubs will autodetect, but none of them (that i know of) do it well. Check the duplex. If the duplex is half on one side and full on the other, you will have major problems :) jack. --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:11:09AM -0600, Jack Moffitt wrote:> > I'm sure it's not an icecast problem because I've set up my > > own icecast server (same version, same playlist) on an ISP's server > > and all is OK, nevertheless maybe some of you had encountered the > > same problems and could tell me where to look at. > > You didn't say what you were originating the stream with. What tool are > you using for that (it might be the culprit)?Sorry for that. the test streams are streamed to icecast 1.3.11 from ices-0.2.2. They were all made or downsampled (from 128 Kbps,44KHz stereo to 32kbs, 32khz, mono) with Lame 3.89beta1.> > Could this be a faulty router somewhere or something else ? > > The first thing that came to mind was the 10/100 - 10 mix. Most of your > switches and hubs will autodetect, but none of them (that i know of) do > it well. Check the duplex. If the duplex is half on one side and full > on the other, you will have major problems :)Thanks a lot. That's exactly the idea I missed ! I'll test again on Monday and let you know. bye, Jerome Alet --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.