Icecast Streaming Media Server

[gee2803]

Hello,

I want to run Icecast in a master slave szenario. 5 streams with 192kbps each will be transferred. At the moment we have 5 master and some slave servers and will switch to 1 master with 5 mountpoints and slaves behind.

Do we need to change the top limit fields?

<limits>
<clients>710</clients>
<sources>100</sources>
<queue-size>524288</queue-size>
<client-timeout>30</client-timeout>
<header-timeout>15</header-timeout>
<source-timeout>10</source-timeout>
<burst-size>65535</burst-size>
</limits>

The server supports 660 listeners each. 710 because of slave and admin connections.

At the moment we have a lot of people "falling to far behind". How can we calculate the above data?

[karlH]

192k will translate to about 20 seconds on that queue so there should be enough although there is nothing wrong in increasing that. That controls when the message (and client termination) occurs but that may just be a symptom, are you able to maintain that many listeners at that bitrate without reaching bandwidth saturation ?

karl.

[gee2803]

First of all thank you for helping me with my account. Now back to topic: The servers are set up to transfer up to 130 Mbit dedicated. This way we are sending to 660 listeners with 192kbps.

I will switch to the new configuration in probably two weeks then, because till then I will have to wait that most directories have updated the mountpoint details already.