[icecast] CPU Utilization Weirdness

[Gary Major]

Appears that I spoke to soon, this did not fix my problem. I did install the
latest stable kernel 2.4.17, but that has no effect either.

I even tried to run only one stream, thinking that there may have been an
issue with multiple streams - didn't help.

Quick question, I am running ices on the same machine as icecast. Is there
any issues with doing this? Is it preferable to use the loopback 127.0.0.1
as opposed to the machines network IP 192.168.x.x?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Major" <gr_major at hotmail.com>
To: <icecast at xiph.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: [icecast] CPU Utilization Weirdness

<p>> Made the change and so far so good, CPU is back where it should be.
Running
> 2 streams at 56K 22Hz is using about 5% CPU total - most respectable I
> think.
>
> I have only been running this config for about 10 minutes, but so far so
> good. Will post follow up tomorrow.
>
> Thanks Jack - question tho: isn't using console mode 3 the same as
using -b
> (from the description in the conf file anyway) or it is the same but
icecast
> treat it differently at runtime.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jack Moffitt" <jack at xiph.org>
> To: <icecast at xiph.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 11:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [icecast] CPU Utilization Weirdness
>
>
> > > The only thing that seems to work is starting the processes and piping
> them
> > > to null. The only disadvantage to that is that icecast sucks all
> available
> > > CPU although it seems to release its hold on the CPU when I start
other
> > > programs.
> >
> > Now this is bringing back some memories.
> >
> > I thought only certain BSDs had this 'feature' that background processes
> > still used stdout/stderr and that was a no-no.
> >
> > Try this:
> >
> > 1) don't use the -b switch.  Tell icecast to use console_mode 3 in the
> > config file.
> >
> > 2) run icecast like so:  ./icecast > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
> >
> > 3) run ices hte same way.
> >
> > See if that helps at all.
> >
> > jack.
> >
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