[Live-devel] Maximum number of client connections Live555 can handle

[Ross Finlayson]

>I really don't understand why this happens. The first 32 rtsp 
>clients connect with no problem, but from the 33rd caller  when the 
>rtsp client sends its DESCRIBE request it remains blocked waiting 
>for the DESCRIBE response from the live555 media server.

OK, this sounds like you've run into an operating system limit on the 
number of sockets that can be open at any one time.  You should be 
able to reconfigure your OS (somehow, depending on the OS) to 
increase this limit.

(Apparently the Darwin Streaming Server doesn't run into this limit 
(at least, not as easily) because it uses sockets somewhat 
differently from our server (but its way has drawbacks of its own),)
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/