Hi! I'm using Icecast to stream ogg and mp3 audio streams. Usually i cast 4-5 ogg streams at time but yesterday i added 3 mp3 streams to my server. After several hours the mp3 (and only mp3) ones stop to work with no apparent reason. The only strange thing i could observe is that the recv-Q showed in netstat is full of data that can't be handled by icecast and the quantity of data is the same for the three devices that are streaming mp3 data (3 different phisical Barix Instreamer devices) tcp 81000 0 ::ffff:10.0.0.254:8001 ::ffff:10.0.0.178:54310 ESTABLISHED 20274/icecast tcp 0 0 ::ffff:10.0.0.254:8001 ::ffff:10.0.0.2:34456 ESTABLISHED 29228/icecast tcp 0 0 ::ffff:10.0.0.254:8001 ::ffff:10.0.0.2:34461 ESTABLISHED 29228/icecast tcp 81000 0 ::ffff:10.0.0.254:8001 ::ffff:10.0.0.177:52967 ESTABLISHED 20274/icecast tcp 81000 0 ::ffff:10.0.0.254:8001 ::ffff:10.0.0.176:52147 ESTABLISHED 20274/icecast The second weird fact i could observe is the fact that a new icecast process appears and it's owned by root (the one i usually start is owned by another custom user) myuser 19041 1 0 14:50 pts/1 00:00:00 /pang/mx/bin/icecast -b -c /pang/mx/etc/icecast.xml root 20274 1 99 14:52 pts/0 00:05:21 /pang/mx/bin/icecast -b -c /pang/mx/etc/icecast.xml As you can see, the CPU is used at 100% so i tried to get what's going on with gdb -p 20274 and this is the result (gdb) where #0 0x008c32d5 in ?? () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #1 0xbfa4cef8 in ?? () #2 0x08072154 in thread_spin_lock () Unfortunally this gave me no clue about the problem. Any idea about what's going on? If you need further data or tests, please feel free to ask it to me. Thank you Davide