Icecast Streaming Media Server

[gazzagood]

how the hell do you install this on debian?

have downloaded it, no idea where the .xml file is etc. no guides on the site?

Any help appreciated

[karlH]

as source tarballs, you do configure; make; make install. samples xml files in conf/ I don't know if anyone is making any debian packages if that is what you are wanting.

karl.

[gazzagood]

whats the best OS to run it on? i can put any on the server

[karlH]

My development box is linux but there should not be anything preventing it from building on others but on occasion certain things do get through.

karl.

[gazzagood]

Ok mate,

the issue i have is under high requests (few hundred viewers) the icecast page stops responding, server load is fine, 0.01/0.02/0.01 etc.

shoutcasts load 100% fine, its simply the icecast web page that is slow, however, it will not let people connect for anything from 5-10 attempts, its sooo sloowwwww

how could this be fixed?

[karlH]

have you checked the error log? could be a client limit or file descriptor limit being reached. In such cases a delay is triggered so that the DoS is limited to new listener connections.

karl.

[gazzagood]

hi karl,

im getting thousands of these every minute:

[2009-08-21 12:17:00] WARN client/client_read_bytes source connection has died
[2009-08-21 12:17:00] WARN client/client_read_bytes source connection has died
[2009-08-21 12:17:00] WARN client/client_read_bytes source connection has died
[2009-08-21 12:17:00] WARN client/client_read_bytes source connection has died
[2009-08-21 12:17:00] WARN client/client_read_bytes source connection has died
[2009-08-21 12:17:00] WARN client/client_read_bytes source connection has died
[2009-08-21 12:17:00] WARN client/client_read_bytes source connection has died
[2009-08-21 12:17:00] WARN client/client_read_bytes source connection has died
[2009-08-21 12:17:00] WARN client/client_read_bytes source connection has died
[2009-08-21 12:17:00] WARN client/client_read_bytes source connection has died
[2009-08-21 12:17:00] WARN client/client_read_bytes source connection has died
[2009-08-21 12:17:00] WARN client/client_read_bytes source connection has died


do you have any idea? the sources are there, there not dropping.

Got a feeling thats whats making the status page load so slow tho!

Thanks

[gazzagood]

also getting these mate

[2009-08-22 15:10:26] WARN fserve/fserve_client_create req for file "/etc/icecast2/web/icecast.png" No such file or directory
[2009-08-22 15:10:26] INFO fserve/fserve_client_create checking for file /corner_topleft.jpg (/etc/icecast2/web/corner_topleft.jpg)
[2009-08-22 15:10:26] WARN fserve/fserve_client_create req for file "/etc/icecast2/web/corner_topleft.jpg" No such file or directory
[2009-08-22 15:10:26] INFO fserve/fserve_client_create checking for file /corner_bottomleft.jpg (/etc/icecast2/web/corner_bottomleft.jpg)
[2009-08-22 15:10:26] WARN fserve/fserve_client_create req for file "/etc/icecast2/web/corner_bottomleft.jpg" No such file or directory

[gazzagood]

and lots of these lol:

[2009-08-22 15:45:12] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node total_bytes_sent (0)
[2009-08-22 15:45:12] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node total_bytes_read (461525)
[2009-08-22 15:45:12] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node total_bytes_sent (0)
[2009-08-22 15:45:17] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node total_bytes_read (1037400)
[2009-08-22 15:45:17] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node total_bytes_sent (0)
[2009-08-22 15:45:17] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node total_bytes_read (718200)
[2009-08-22 15:45:17] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node total_bytes_sent (0)
[2009-08-22 15:45:17] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node total_bytes_read (821800)
[2009-08-22 15:45:17] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node total_bytes_sent (0)
[2009-08-22 15:45:17] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node total_bytes_read (866126)
[2009-08-22 15:45:17] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node total_bytes_sent (0)
[2009-08-22 15:45:22] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node total_bytes_read (1386000)
[2009-08-22 15:45:22] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node total_bytes_sent (0)
[2009-08-22 15:45:22] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node total_bytes_read (1174600)

[karlH]

Those web links look to be from the 2.3.2/trunk page, so it looks like you are mixing up your icecast web pages.

I have an updated tarball to try out, some minor tweaking going on for certain cases, but no changes to the read bytes issue you reported as little information is given, could be a DoS attack for all we know.

www.icecast.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/icecast-2.3.2-kh13pre.tar.gz

karl.

[gazzagood]

i copied my config file from my old version of icecast... this could be the issue?

if i paste my config could you check it?

[karlH]

sure, but that won't tell me about the web page with the broken links. You issued a request with a browser and that mapped to a page in webroot, that web page had the broken links. The xml config would only tell me about the aliases or possibly some unrelated stream options that _may_ be silly.

karl.

[gazzagood]

hi karl,

what would i need to look at to sort the errors?

None of our customers can connect as the web page will timout and not launch.

How would i install your version on winamp? ive run:

wget install http://www.icecast.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/icecast-2.3.2-kh13pre.tar.gz

not sure where the .xml goes?

Thanks

[karlH]

Without knowing what you are setting it's hard to say. The tarball contains the web pages with the correct links, so as long as your xml points to the correct webroot then you'll be ok.

a page timeout is a different problem to not finding the page, a timeout indicates that the server port is not accessible, eg firewall.

As for winamp, I'm not sure what you are getting at, the icecast server and a client like winamp are separate. Are you thinking this is a plugin to winamp?

karl.