Number of CPU Processes?

[Elbonian]

I have been offered hosting by Verio. They do not meter bandwidth, but they do limit the number of CPU processes you can use (to 48 for their "low-end" package, at $150 per month and to 96 for their "high-end" package at $300 per month).

The documentation I have seems to indicate that there is a one-to-one relationship between CPU processes and listeners, meaning that I could support up to about 40 listeners for the low-end package and up to about 90 listeners for the high-end packages, above. However, on my test server, the Shoutcast server seems to spawn a number of processes on startup, more like httpd. And there is some other wording in the documentation that seems to indicate that users are distributed in a sort-of "round-robin" style over the available CPU processes.

I'm confused, and before I sign up for an expensive server to get the "unlimited" bandwidth, I want to know just how many listeners I can expect to support (this is for a local Community Radio nonprofit group). Is it one listener per CPU process or is it round-robin?

Thanks in advance,

== Bill

[rgATL]

Each listener adds a system process? Woah, I didn't know that.

Is that each user currently listening, or is it equal to your maxUsers (say maxusers=30 but only 1 person is listening)?

thanks,
rg.

[DJ AmPs]

in linux you will see many processes. i've noticed in solaris there is only one. i'm not sure if they increase with listeners in linux. maybe someone can shed some light on this.

-amps