[icecast] load average question

Michael Smith
Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:23:38 -0000

On Friday 05 December 2003 17:55, Adon Irani wrote:
>  i've been trying to research this online , but i haven't found
anything
> too conclusive .
>
> i've got up to 4 ices (non-encoding) rebroadcasts going , and up to 2
> stream transcoders .
>
> my load averages around 2.xx ( haven't seen it over 3 yet )..
>
> does anyone know if this is too high ? , or if i should use a more
> powerful cpu ?
>

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.

Mike