Server Load

[AlexGLMS]

Just a performance question I cant seem to find anything about in the documentation.

Bandwidth aside, I need an indication of how many clients (say at 64kbps) should a shoutcast server with P4 2.8Ghz with 1GB of RAM should be able to cope with, in terms of CPU/Memory requirements.

Another question is, our audience is a local audience, plus locals abroad, who know about the radio through the organisation it belongs to and through its website.

Therefore we'd rather have the broadcast not listed in the shoutcast listings. Is there a way to avoid it?

[Jay]

it is all reletive to the OS. All of it goes to your tcp stack so if your stack is good you should be fine. Most if not all shoutcast users never find a hardware limit before the bandwidth limit on single instance shoutcast servers with 1 Gig drops. Adding more shoutcast instances or encoding processes change things and the most significant resource eater locally is always encoding.

[sprinkles]

And yes, you can choose to not be listed in the yp