Hi Robert, VOD stands for video on demand, so just archived content. I am running these servers through an outside load balancing system that I designed for streaming media so technically it is a system capable of around 1000 users since the traffic is adjusted as necessary. But each machine by itself does around 500 users. The only caveat is that I've had to alter the file loading mechanism to use a proprietary memory mapping system outside of Red5 and java due to java's memory mapping functions being broken. So all of the VOD content is loaded into memory by an outside system and a memory pointer handed to Red5 to use. The stock Red5 implementation should be able to handle at least a couple hundred simultaneous users as long as the flv files are not large and system memory permitting. If you are doing live streaming however then none of that matters and you should have no trouble achieving those numbers. Also the connection for these servers are full gigabit and the content is random flv files ranging from 2mb to 500mb.
Hope that helps! --Dan-- On Feb 11, 2007, at 4:13 PM, American Web Design wrote: > Dear Red5, > Thank you very much for the info you guys have given. Daniel, I > don't > want to sound like an idiot, but what does VOD stand for? The fact > that you > are running 500 users on your system has interested me! Are you > having to > run those 500 users on both of those machines like an edge setup or > are you > being able to run them on one (given the memory trouble)? Do you > think Red5 > will do what I want? (320 x 240 video with audio x 500 connections) > Also > what type of an internet connection are you using? What are the > stats? You > can email if you prefer that. Thanks again! > > Robert Fleming > > > _______________________________________________ > Red5 mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/red5_osflash.org _______________________________________________ Red5 mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/red5_osflash.org
