Dear Marius,
In addition to that attached please find a screenshot from Proxmox on
statistics.
Do you know any ice cast servers that puts out more than 1 gbps for a
longer period? Just curious whether anyone was able to go beyond 1 gbps for
an extensive time.
Thank you!
Best,
Zsolt
zsolt makkai <gvmzsolt at gmail.com> ezt ?rta (id?pont: 2024. m?rc. 14.,
Cs,
23:39):
> Dear Marius,
>
> Our station is Megadanceradio in Hungary.
>
> Our status page for the master server is:
> http://45.67.158.93:8000/status.xsl For the slave:
> http://45.67.158.94:8000/status.xsl
>
> We are peaking at around 11.00 am and 13.00 pm in the afternoon.
>
> We have tested extensively the bandwith with speedtest. We tried with
> iperf but that did not finish for a long time so we stopped it.
>
> Currently we are load balancing on two 10 gbps dedicated lines. So for now
> we are ok, but for the future we do not know for how long it will last.
> Currently we are limiting the number of listeners to 5200 on each server so
> as not to cripple the system. When we are approaching the bandwidth limit
> we are getting loads of timeouts until finally not being able to access
> even the status page.
>
> That was our second idea that somewhere in the production chain there is a
> limit set but we did not find anything.
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Best,
>
> Zsolt
>
> Marius Flage <marius at flage.org> ezt ?rta (id?pont: 2024. m?rc.
14., Cs,
> 23:01):
>
>> I don't know if any such limitation exists, but maxing out just shy
of
>> 1Gbps sounds a bit more like an interface's line speed limited/set
to 1Gbps
>> somewhere in your production chain? You wrote that you have tested the
bw -
>> what did you use? Iperf? Speedtest?
>>
>> Maybe consider scaling with additional Icecast servers and use a load
>> balancer in front? And then just scale accordingly? This sounds like an
>> interesting challenge. Which radio station is this, if I may ask?
>>
>> --
>> Marius
>>
>>
>> Sendt fra min Galaxy
>>
>>
>> -------- Opprinnelig melding --------
>> Fra: zsolt makkai <gvmzsolt at gmail.com>
>> Dato: 14.03.2024 22:28 (GMT+01:00)
>> Til: icecast at xiph.org
>> Emne: [Icecast] Unable to utilize past 1 gbps
>>
>> Dear Icecast,
>>
>> We are operating a web radio on a 10 Gbps dedicated server line. The
line
>> bandwidth is tested and available. The web radio is hosted on a Proxmox
>> virtual environment. We own the physical server itself and made sure to
>> have allocated the sufficient amount of resources on the virtual
machine.
>>
>> We found that no matter what we do overall upload cannot go over 1 gbps
>> on 1 mount point.
>> It is not about the maximum number of listeners as a limiting factor
but
>> the overall bandwidth icecast (we are using 2.4.4) is able to utilize.
>>
>> We can let more listeners to connect only by decreasing the outgoing
>> bitrate that is going against quality.
>>
>> We have looked at icecast web stations globally and what we have found
is
>> that NON of them are exceeding the 1 gbps limit. Like servers having
>> maximum number of listeners (18000) but using only 48 kbps bitrate
which is
>> around 900 mbps...
>>
>> Please advice!
>>
>> Is this really the limit that one icecast server can
utilize/mountpoint?
>>
>> Please link a server that goes over the 1 gbps limit continuously...
>>
>> Thank you for your help!
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Zsolt Makkai
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