Icecast - Aug 2005 - System Requeriments for a number of listeners

Hello:
    Someone can help me to determine the system requeriments for a given number
of listeners...?
I know the Bandwidth and the quality are directly related to the number of
listeners we can support with an Icecast server...but some of you have any idea
of the memory and cpu requeriments for each listener connected?  I need to buy
my new server...

Regards
Daniel
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On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 20:38, Daniel Quintana C. wrote:
> Hello:
>     Someone can help me to determine the system requeriments for a
> given number of listeners...?
> I know the Bandwidth and the quality are directly related to the
> number of listeners we can support with an Icecast server...but some
> of you have any idea of the memory and cpu requeriments for each
> listener connected?  I need to buy my new server...
Bandwidth is really the only resource measure to consider. Each listener
refers to a shared pool for stream data so you only have the memory for
the client accounting which really isn't much (think 1 kbyte per
client), the queue is variable but at most queue-size bytes/per stream
is retained. As a general indicator, the Icecast servers I see currently
take around 2-4 Meg RAM per server.

CPU is also not a factor as no re-encoding goes on within icecast.

karl.