Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

I am new to icecast, so please be kind...

I run a network of 3 online radio stations. we are in the process of switching over to Icecast from shoutcast.

Installed last night with no apparent problems.

Woke up this morning and the icecast server appears to be locking up at 250 listeners.

I have 6 mounts on this server and no limit set for listeners.

I have tried setting a server wide listener limit above 250, but still does it.

This is a Win32 installation of v2.3.2

Any help would be appreciated.

[karlH]

The internal default setting for <clients> is 256 which sounds like a limit you are seeing, 250 listeners + 6 sources. You should not see it locking up though but it depends on what you mean on that.

You should check the error log as specified in the icecast xml file that may report the limit being hit. If that is the case then setting <clients> in <limits> to a larger value should be ok, I don't know what limits win32 imposes on a process but you should be clear up to 1000 at the very least.

karl.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Karl, That would make sense. 'Locking Up' meant I could not access the online server admin / stats. The Client limit would account for that.

I will implement a higher client limit and see if that helps