[Live-devel] Strange problem when spawning multiple instances of Live555 programs

Deeptendu Bikash dbikash at gmail.com
Sun Oct 29 22:39:17 PST 2006


We did such a test some time back. We reached a limit to the number of
clients (a modification of openRTSP) at around 75. I guess we failed to
close some file descriptors.

Deeptendu


On 10/30/06, Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live555.com> wrote:
>
> >I have made one program that accepts data on a socket, and
> >retransmits it on a RTSP socket (sort of like
> >testOnDemandRTSPServer, but with socket input instead of a file)
>
> Be sure to set the "reuseFirstSource" parameter to "True" when
> creating each "ServerMediaSubsession" object.
>
> >Everything works fine as long as I spawn no more than 25
> >server/client pairs. If I go above that, say 40, one of the programs
> >(sometimes openRTSP, other times the server) starts hogging CPU
> >power.
>
> I suspect you're running into some internal OS limit here - e.g.,
> maximum number of sockets or open files.  If so, then this may be
> something that you can reconfigure.
>
> Apart from this, I don't have anything else to suggest right now,
> unfortunately.
> --
>
> Ross Finlayson
> Live Networks, Inc.
> http://www.live555.com/
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