[Icecast-dev] icecast relay server performance testing

Alejandro
Fri, 10 Jun 2016 04:29:55 -0000

Sorry, 35K concurrent with 8 workers at 60% cpu

2016-06-10 1:28 GMT-03:00 Alejandro <cdgraff at gmail.com>:

> Hi Zahar, what value has into
>
>     <workers>8</workers>
>
> This value is recommended to set at 1 by virtual core.
>
> I 'm using for some years, KH branch with 35 concurrent listeners into
8
> core vm.
>
> Regards,
> Alejandro
>
> 2016-06-10 0:50 GMT-03:00 Zahar Popov <zahar.popov1978 at
yandex.com>:
>
>> Hello
>> I'm trying to measure the performance of the icecast relay server
on
>> 64kbps streams.
>>
>> The server is running in AWS (i've tried various instance types)
and the
>> test clients are running on other machines in AWS. The test client is a
>> very simple libuv application that sends a GET request and basically
>> ignores everything it receives in the response. I'm using the
icecast-kh
>> fork.
>>
>> I'm able to go up to around 9K simultaneous connections to the
server
>> (from two machines). The CPU usage is low, about 15% or so (on one
core).
>> However connections are starting to be dropped. Checking netstat i see
many
>> frames being lost. Increasing the transmit queue length helped, but
still i
>> can't go beyond around 9K connections. I have increased the file
descriptor
>> limits and configured IRQ balancing (even though the problem
doesn't seem
>> to be CPU bound)
>>
>> It doesn't matter if i run one or more instances of the relay
server, the
>> limit seems to be OS global so when one instance is running with 5K
>> connections and the other instance is getting close to 4K connections
they
>> both start dropping connections.
>>
>> I assume that there is some other setting of the stack that i
didn't
>> configure so i was wondering if anybody was able to run a few dozens of
>> thousands of connections on one server.
>>
>> thanks!
>> --zahar
>>
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