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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello all,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>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.</FONT><BR></FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>