Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

I pipe a stream from stdout to lame to ezstream and run that from a start script derived from skeleton.

It all runs fine for a while, but then the ezstream process seems to multiply into several instances, all of them appearing in top.

Why does ezstream multiply like that?

How can I prevent it from doing so?

Thanks and cheers,
Konrad

[Anonymous]

That's how ezstream works -- it creates new processes that run the external utilities that have been configured in the <encdec/> sections.

Once the external utility is finished doing its job, like decoding a file, the extra process should terminate and be "collected" by ezstream ... the result is that there are (should!) never be more than 3 (5, when playlist and metadata programs are being used) simultaneous processes belonging to a single instance of ezstream.

If you're observing ezstream spawning more and more processes over time until it crashes, because the OS won't allow it to spawn any more, then there's a problem. Not sure what it might be, I'm pretty certain I would've noticed that myself ... maybe a broken popen()/pclose() implementation? Anyways, if that is the case, a lot more information is required -- please read http://www.icecast.org/ezstream.php#ez_support for details. I'd need to understand/reproduce the issue.


Moritz