[Live-devel] Set a limit for RTSP Client connections.

[Cristiano Belloni]

Hello Ross and everyone else,

I'm using live555 RTSP server (unicast) in a system with limited memory 
and CPU resources.

When too many clients connect to the server, the CPU can't cope with the 
load, and I start losing frames or get read errors from the pipe I read 
the frames from (it's a realtime application, and I think the kernel 
starts to be unstable when the system CPU time is very high).

So, I'd like to set a static limit to the number of users who can get 
the live stream at the same time. Is there a way?

If there isn't, couldn't I just create a derived class of the RTPsinks 
I'm using, increase a shared counter everytime their CreateNew() method 
is called and decrease it in the destructor of the sink?

Then, if the counter is over the limit, I can refuse to create a new 
sink in the createNewRTPSink method of my MediaSubsession (aka return a 
NULL pointer).

Would it work?

Additionally, the increase and decrease counter operations wouldn't have 
to be mutually exclusive because the library works in a non-threaded 
fashion, is it right?

Thanks in advance,
Cristiano.

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