[techtalk] Opinions about Linux and Streaming Media

[Jeff]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 08:33:25AM -0700, Nicci Tynen wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Say I had a Pentium III (coppermine) with 1 GB of ram on a system
> running RH Linux 6.1.  How many simultaneous 40 Kb/s media streams do
> you think I could
> support?  If you know any web site that would have these figures - could
> you point me in that direction?

In this case, the processor and the RAM are not going to be a
performance problem at all.  That box should be more than capable of
filling just about any pipe.  So the question becomes, how much
bandwidth do you have for streaming?

The next question is also, what else are you running on that box?  That
could have an impact too.  I mean 1Gb of RAM on a PIII running Linux for
streaming only?  Your manager normally runs an NT shop, then?  ;)  I
mean, having it dedicated is fine -- don't get me wrong on that --
you'll just have room to grow in that case.

-- 
Jeff
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