[icecast] load average question

Adon Irani
Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:23:38 -0000

>
> As a general rule, you don't want to set up a system with a load
average of
> more than 1 (per cpu, so between 1 and 2 is ok for a dual cpu system).
>
> ices (when not encoding) will use a negligible amount of cpu, so the
problem
> is probably entirely the stream transcoders.

assuming i want to continue using streamTranscoder ( and that it cannot
be
optimized any further ) .,

hould i upgrade my system immediately ?, or, will a load average of <2
cause other system problems ?, ie., slow down mysql access and apache ?

 thanks for any advice ..

a:/,