[icecast] Icecast load tests - Too many open files

[iceuse at kezako.net]

Hi all,

'm trying to setup an icecast server.
It works, bu I want to test how many clients it can serve.
Server: Icecast2 on PIII 933Mkz, 512Mo RAM
Linux Debian 3.0
One source sent by darkice (can't make ices2 working)

The problem is: "The server can't serve more than 1020 clients, because of a file limit"
[2003-03-13  14:18:50] WARN connection/_accept_connection accept() failed with error 24: Too many open files

The server load is quite low
 14:42:36 up 53 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.10, 0.21, 0.18
very low memory is used:
Atalone:/var/log/icecast# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           471         99        372          0          2         31
Atalone:/var/log/icecast# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           471         99        372          0          2         31

<p>not so much open files
Atalone:/var/log/icecast# lsof | wc -l
  10849

(below the limit I set to 0x10000)
Atalone:/var/log/icecast# cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
65536

My icecast config :
(extracts)
        <limits>
                <clients>3000</clients>
                <sources>2</sources>
                <threadpool>5</threadpool>
                <queue-size>102400</queue-size>
                <client-timeout>30</client-timeout>
                <header-timeout>15</header-timeout>
                <source-timeout>20</source-timeout>
        </limits>
    <mount>
        <mount-name>/radiofree.ogg</mount-name>
        <username>source</username><password>srcpwd</password>
        <max-listeners>2000</max-listeners>
    </mount>

<p>Ethernet bandwidth used :
the server sent 20MBps and received less than 1MBps

My clients are wget clients :
wget -O /dev/null --quiet http://192.168.3.78:8000/radiofree.ogg
they consume the stream at the stream speed of 30KBps
Among all the clients, I have one real client plugged to speakers, to ckeck the stream. It is ok.

So....if somebody knowns how to get rid of that open file limit...
(the kernel limit of 65536 is set in a rcS.d script as told in Debian kernel docs)

Thanks,
Chris
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