[Icecast] CPU load

[Karl Heyes]

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 14:05, Mindaugas Musnikas wrote:
> Hello all,
>  
> I want to stream multiple live programs. For that purpose the analog
> signal of radio  program must be digitalized and encoded. I'm using
> RME HDSP 9652 (with 26 input channels) soundcard for capturing the
> sound. For encoding I'm using jackified version of ices (ices-kh) and
> JACK server to connect multiple ices processes to the soundcard. My
> operating system is  Linux Mandrake 10.0 with kernel 2.6. The drivers
> for soundcard is ALSA 1.0.6. My Hardware is  Pentium4 HT 2,8 GHz with
> 512 MB of RAM. Operating system recognizes two logical CPUs and
> distributes the load between these devices. When I start icecast,
> jackd and 12 ices processes in this PC, I can see that these processes
> use about 80% of the CPU time. My question is: is such a usage of CPU
> normal or not? What parameters of ices configuration file can be
> changed to optimize consumption of CPU time? I know, that a managed
> bitrate requires more CPU time , so I'm not using this feature. Thank
> you in advance.

The encoding operation is the far most extensive use of the CPU, so if
the encoder settings are what you want then there isn't much else.
ices-kh does allow for say the same encoded stream to be sent to be
multiple servers/mountpoints but whether that will be useful will depend
on the setup you have

karl.