Can't find any recommended system specs on the website. What are they? Will it run well on a Celeron 1GHz? How about a 700Mhz? I'm asking because the company I'm hosting through is running a special on 700Mhz and 1Ghz servers, and if Icecast will run on these, I may just go ahead and lease 4-5 more to move my icecast stuff onto dedicated servers.
At 12:48 PM 12/22/2004, you wrote:>Can't find any recommended system specs on the website. > >What are they? Will it run well on a Celeron 1GHz? How about a 700Mhz?we don't have any specific specs, but icecast will run on some very low-end systems. As far as CPU goes, icecast takes very little CPU, it's all I/O, and mostly network read and writes. So either of those class servers should run fine. Most always, the limiting factor is the network interface. oddsock
I run Icecast 2.1 on a 733Mhz machine with 7 streams that push about 12Mbit/sec in total and the machine is basically idle. I've also pushed nearly 600 concurrent streams (60+Mbit/sec) off a dual-Celeron box without a hitch. -mp * Aaron Paulley (paulley@gmail.com) [041222 11:48] spake thusly:> Can't find any recommended system specs on the website. > > What are they? Will it run well on a Celeron 1GHz? How about a 700Mhz? > > I'm asking because the company I'm hosting through is running a > special on 700Mhz and 1Ghz servers, and if Icecast will run on these, > I may just go ahead and lease 4-5 more to move my icecast stuff onto > dedicated servers. > _______________________________________________ > Icecast mailing list > Icecast@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast >
audio is working fine on this 300 mgz box. It might get weird when I try to stream vid from it though. I usually just do ices on the old boxes and send to a large server with icecast but i am just trying to wring what i can outa this box. oddsock wrote:> At 12:48 PM 12/22/2004, you wrote: > >> Can't find any recommended system specs on the website. >> >> What are they? Will it run well on a Celeron 1GHz? How about a 700Mhz? > > > we don't have any specific specs, but icecast will run on some very > low-end systems. As far as CPU goes, icecast takes very little CPU, > it's all I/O, and mostly network read and writes. So either of those > class servers should run fine. Most always, the limiting factor is the > network interface. > > oddsock > > _______________________________________________ > Icecast mailing list > Icecast@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast > >-- Michael H. Collins Admiral, Penguinista Navy http://linuxlink.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / No HTML/RTF in email x No Word docs in email / \ Respect for open standards Take your laptop and yell out: "Can a brother get a ip address?"
On Thursday 23 December 2004 05:48, Aaron Paulley wrote:> Can't find any recommended system specs on the website. > > What are they? Will it run well on a Celeron 1GHz? How about a 700Mhz? > > I'm asking because the company I'm hosting through is running a > special on 700Mhz and 1Ghz servers, and if Icecast will run on these, > I may just go ahead and lease 4-5 more to move my icecast stuff onto > dedicated servers.Icecast itself has very low cpu requirements. If your system can handle the network traffic, it can scale to several thousand concurrent listeners on (for example; a system I tested it on a while ago) a 400 MHz system. However, if you're also trying to do _encoding_ on the system, you'll run into cpu limitations reasonably quickly if you have many simultaneous streams. Most people don't do their encoding on the server, though, so this may well be ok. Mike