Mmmm. On 2nd thought, I believe I have my decimal points in the wrong
place. We would need 100's of T1 connnections.
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> From: owner-icecast@xiph.org [mailto:owner-icecast@xiph.org]
> On Behalf Of Ross Levis
> Sent: Monday, 10 March 2003 13:46
> To: icecast@xiph.org
> Subject: [icecast] Icecast2 memory requirements
>
>
> I mentioned the other day about a new company I'm involved
> with setting up 1000's of streams using Vorbis. This appears
> to be the favoured format now so that is good news. They are
> also investigating hosting the IceCast server(s) at their own
> premices rather than using a stream hosting provider.
>
> It was mentioned that 1000's of streams could likely be
> processed by IceCast2 on the same PC (2Ghz or more) and the
> bottleneck would be the Internet bandwidth required for the
> number of listeners.
>
> I would like estimates of the amount of RAM required on the
> PC per stream and per listener. The streams will all average
> 32kb/s. Any ideas?
>
> If we take an example of 1000 streams with 30 listeners each
> = 30000 individual streams @ 32kb/s = 960Mb/s. That doesn't
> sound like too much. One T1 connection will handle that
> easily. But will IceCast and one CPU handle that?
>
> Regards,
> Ross Levis.
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