Hello, One question about cpu and ram. I'have a pentium IV with 512 Mb of Ram, running icecast2 in debian. If I supose that i have unlimited *bandwidth,* how many streams support at the same time? I want to stream ogg audio at 32 kbps. Thanks in advanced, Raul.
raul wrote:> Hello, > One question about cpu and ram. > I'have a pentium IV with 512 Mb of Ram, running icecast2 in debian. > If I supose that i have unlimited *bandwidth,* how many streams support > at the same time? > I want to stream ogg audio at 32 kbps.if you do not transcode or encode on the machine, you should be able to run quite a few. on my machine (dual p3 600, 512 mb ram), icecast uses about 2.5% of all memory at according to top with two theora and 30 vorbis streams and one client each. cpu load is negligible. so the exact answer is "an awful lot" :-D i guess your machine might be able to saturate a 100mbit link.
Joern Nettingsmeier schrieb:> > i guess your machine might be able to saturate a 100mbit link.it was no problem to saturate an 10MBit link with an PII-266 and almost no sysload. ppl here on the list had virtually thousands of sessions of "wget -o /dev/null http://localhost:8000/somestream.ogg" running without noticeable sysload. its simply pushing packets around. nothing spectacular. as pointed out _very_ often: the really cpu expensive part is reencoding. regards Thomas