[vlc] Re: tests of streaming using vlc stream output

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Benjamin PRACHT wrote:
> I've had  the occasion  to make  some tests  streaming using  VLC stream
> output.
> 
> I was streaming several avis, from a  fibre channel disk, on a duron 900
> / 256 MB of ram / Linux 2.4.20 / Woody. I managed to launch 20 vlc in 20
> different screens, streaming  20 files. The total used  bandwidth was 20
> Mbit/s.
> 
> With these  20 files, the CPU  was totally used. 75%  of CPU utilisation
> was system (surprising, in my opinion, I thought 20 Mbit/s, ie less than
> 4 MB/s of streams wouldn't stress  the IO that much...). Moreover, I had
> to increase the authorised amount of processes the user could own, since
> the total amount of processes was exceeding 256 (10 processes per VLC, I
> think). Everything was working quite well, except the load of the server
> was over 4...
> 
> I begin to have messages such as
> 
> "videolan kernel:  Out of  Memory: Killed process  2072 (vlc)."  about 3
> hours after  I launched the  streamers, and  I've got such  messages for
> about  two  days,  until  the  server stops  sending  data  and  crashes
> (impossible to logon neither remotely, nor locally).
> 
memory leak?

> I've already tried vlc stream output  on that server, with only 6 files,
> while the server  was streaming satellite channels  (cpu utilization was
> about 100 % too), and thos worked quite well.
> 
> So, any idea about what happened ?
> 
> If you need any further information...
> 



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Jean-Paul Saman

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