Is there some info somewhere about calculating the throughput of an Icecast server? (I'm not really talking about the bandwidth) I need to figure out how much CPU and RAM I need. I also need to know whether other software on the server (such as mySQL ) will have a problem with Icecast. Geoff
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 04:30, Geoff Staples wrote:> Is there some info somewhere about calculating the throughput of an > Icecast server? > > (I'm not really talking about the bandwidth) > > I need to figure out how much CPU and RAM I need.RAM/CPU usage is so minimal that it would hardly show, bugs excluded :). Each has a tie in to the number streams running, but a few Mbytes is really the typical figure.> I also need to know whether other software on the server (such as mySQL > ) will have a problem with Icecast.I would of thought the other software would have to be hitting the system resources very hard to affect icecast. The disk is hardly used, maxing out bandwidth would affect listeners before icecast and not much CPU is needed. karl.
On 6/2/05, Geoff Staples <geoff@radioleft.com> wrote:> Is there some info somewhere about calculating the throughput of an > Icecast server? > > (I'm not really talking about the bandwidth) > > I need to figure out how much CPU and RAM I need. > > I also need to know whether other software on the server (such as mySQL > ) will have a problem with Icecast.There's no reason other software would be affected in any way. For any supportable number of users, RAM usage remains low enough that it won't be a concern for any modern system. CPU usage for small numbers of users is hard to measure (it's near zero), and should only be a concern if you're planning on at least a thousand simultaneous clients (and probably a lot more!). Mike