[Red5] Load balancing for live streams

[Timon Reinhard]

Hi Mark,

fair enough, you have Wowza benchmarks. ;)

 > I don't know how Red5 handles this but it is worth trying to do it on
 > a different way then writing it as a file?

Quite sure Red5 doesn't handle live streams as files. I guess this got 
somehow mixed up with VOD in this thread.

The problem distributing live streams is less the cpu/memory load than 
the available network bandwidth. I'm curious if that could be solved 
using Terracotta...



Mark de Jong [NetMasters BV] schrieb:
> Hi Martijn, Timon and Dan,
>  
> Why should it be I/O intensive? Are you writing a live stream to the HDD in
> order to stream this? We have been testing around with Wowza Media Server a
> lot (and have done a live pilot with it). We had about 600 simultanious
> streams at 350Kbps and we used about 12,5% of the resources of the server we
> used (we have been testing around with different types of hardware with
> Wowza and have recieved very good results with it). AFAIK know Wowza did it
> by using memory instead of writing it as a file and also has a way to
> duplicate live streams to other servers. I don't know how Red5 handles this
> but it is worth trying to do it on a different way then writing it as a
> file? 
> 
> PS: I'm not a technician I'm just a salesperson that loves tech :)
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Mark de Jong 
> NetMasters/FlashHosting
> www.flashhosting.nl
>  
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> Van: Red5-bounces at osflash.org [mailto:Red5-bounces at osflash.org] Namens
> Martijn van Beek
> Verzonden: vrijdag 15 juni 2007 14:32
> Aan: Red5 at osflash.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [Red5] Load balancing for live streams
> 
> 
> I'm currently experimenting with ssh mounts in Linux.
> I can read out the directory of the other server within Red5 but it fails to
> load the flv somehow.
> 
> I noticed that Red5 handles everything very well but when a lot of people
> want to access the same stream at the same time the I/O is killing my server
> (Dual Duo Core Xeon with 4 GB RAM). 
> 
> Could Terracotta handle this? 
> 
> 
> On 6/15/07, Dan Rossi <spam at electroteque.org> wrote: 
> 
> 	I think there has been talk of implementing terracotta which may
> make
> 	this possible. We publish to one server currently.
> 	
> 	
> 	Timon Reinhard wrote:
> 	> Hi!
> 	>
> 	> Is there any way to distribute a live videostream using two or
> more 
> 	> machines running red5?
> 	>
> 	> Thanks.
> 	>
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