[icecast] Number of listeners per server box ?

[John Griffiths]

Given my experience of running multiple streams on an 
old 486, I'd say you will run out of bandwidth before you 
overpower the server.

At 01:53 PM 1/13/02 -0800, Peter Skye wrote:
>I have a proposal from RackSpace to put icecast on the following
>hardware at their server farm.  Can someone give me a "guesstimate" of
>how many listeners each box can support?
>
>Proposed hardware by RackSpace for each server box:
>
>  Dual 866 MHz processor
>  2 GB ECC RAM
>  100 Mbps connection
>
>I need to know how many listeners can connect to each of these boxes.
>
>I don't know how to specify the hardware that icecast requires.  If
>anyone thinks there is a better hardware specification than the one
>above I'd love to hear your suggestions along with how many listeners
>each server box could support.
>
>I know that the bandwidth of the network is a limiting factor and we're
>looking at load balancing to resolve this.  Assuming the network
>bandwidth is adequate, the limiting factor would appear to be the server
>hardware boxes.
>
>Thanks very much for any help.
>
>- Peter
>
>
>
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