Icecast dev - Aug 2004 - Modified slave behavior?

With multiple relay slaves and a growing list of streams, I am looking
for ways to conserve bandwidth.  The current behavior has each relay
slave "pulling" each stream from the master server.  Is anyone working
on offering a modification to this behavior where the relay slaves will
only pull the stream from the master as needed?  So the slave would
always be aware of the streams' availability, but would only pull the
stream if it needs to.

Just curious.

Thanks,
Dave

On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 17:36, Dave Pascoe wrote:
> With multiple relay slaves and a growing list of streams, I am looking
> for ways to conserve bandwidth.  The current behavior has each relay
> slave "pulling" each stream from the master server.  Is anyone
working
> on offering a modification to this behavior where the relay slaves will
> only pull the stream from the master as needed?  So the slave would
> always be aware of the streams' availability, but would only pull the
> stream if it needs to.
The only way at the moment is to use my icecast tree, via

SVN at svn.xiph.org/icecast/branches/kh/icecast
src at http://mediacast1.com/~karl/icecast-2.0-kh48.tar.gz

and define <on-demand>1</on-demand> in each <relay> section.

With a few changes it could apply globally to all relays so that it
would apply to relays defined by the master server.

karl.