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Anonymous Guest
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Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 4:52 pm Post subject: slow listeners? |
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Hi everyone,
Can anybody explain to me what slow listeners are in the Stats.xsl file?
thanks in advance.
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karlH Code Warrior
Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 5476 Location: UK
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Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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The accumulated count of the listeners that have been disconnected because they were too far behind in the stream, ie more than queue-size bytes.
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Anonymous Guest
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Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:55 am Post subject: |
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How exactly does this happen? The server is sending too much information? Nahh. Wouldn't that just be cached?
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karlH Code Warrior
Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 5476 Location: UK
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Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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icecast will buffer or cache at most the queue size amount for that mountpoint. The only reason the listener would be too far behind is if the connection from icecast to that listener cannot take the bitrate of the stream.
A simple example would be a 128k stream over a dialup line. The stream requires 128kbit/s sustained transfer rate to prevent lagging (actually slightly more for overhead) but dialup modems just can't provide that, so they provide what they can say ~40kbit/s and fall behind in the queue. While this is an extreme case, even if your physical connection has more capacity other factors could limit the transfer rate of that connection.
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Anonymous Guest
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Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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Ah makes sense.
The topic of "no transcoding of even static files" was answered in another thread.
Thanks
KM |
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