Icecast - Sep 2005 - Overhead of individual mount points

I'm running a private stream which only has a handful of clients.  I have
found it convenient to create a separate mount point on my encoder (Simplecast)
for each client.  This allows me to track the current client list using the
tools built into Simplecast.  It also allows me to do custom streams when
required on a per-destination basis.

All mount points are normally running the same content, encoder and bit rate.

Is there any downside to this kind of configuration?  Additional overhead?

Thanks
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Dick
Triad AV Services
1910 Ingersoll Ave.
Des Moines, IA 50309
515-243-2125
515-243-2055 (fax)
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On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 21:34, Dick Trump wrote:
> I'm running a private stream which only has a handful of clients.  I
have found it convenient to create a separate mount point on my encoder
(Simplecast) for each client.  This allows me to track the current client list
using the tools built into Simplecast.  It also allows me to do custom streams
when required on a per-destination basis.
> 
> All mount points are normally running the same content, encoder and bit
rate.
> 
> Is there any downside to this kind of configuration?  Additional overhead?
it seems wasteful as the mountpoint is not servicing many listeners, so
you'll have more threads in use but they won't be doing much work if
there's only 1 listener per mountpoint.

karl.