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habalababala
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September 28, 2009
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fms hardware question

  • September 28, 2009
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Hello,

i have a question regarding the hardware of a fms server. We have it installed and working properly on:

CentOS 5.3 64bit

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E4400  @ 2.00GHz

3GB RAM

2xSATA HDD in RAID1

We are going to stream live video, at a rate of 500 K bits/second, to an
audience of up to 5.000 people, at peak times.

The video will be pushed to the FMIS server as flash files, ready to be
streamed in the right format and bit rate, which therefore do not need any
conversion.

In addition we will be offering, video for streaming download on demand, at
a bit rate of 500 K bits/second, with up to 1000 users at the same time at
peak times.

My question is if thats possible with te current hardware?

Thanks!

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    Anonymous
    September 28, 2009

    6000 streams is a bit much to ask from a single box. I'd opt balance the traffic across at least two servers.

    You didn't mention the NIC in your description of the server you're using. The traffic you described will require about 3Gbps of bandwidth, so you'll need to be sure that the NIC (and the network it's attached to) can support the traffic.

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    habalababalaAuthor
    Participant
    September 28, 2009

    Hello,

    thanks for replay!

    the nic is an ordinary 100 mbit, but we have the possibility to attach to the machine a faster one and attach it to a faster network, we have 60 gbits at our DC to the backbone

    my question was more about the cpu/ram we have used to setup the server, because we are greenhorns about fms and its resource consumption

    thanks!

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    Anonymous
    September 28, 2009

    Check out pages 17-19 of this doc:

    http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/pdfs/fms3_5_wp_ue.pdf

    It will give you some ideas of how your hardware will measure up. The tests were based on servers that each have a bonded pair of 1Gbps nic's, but actual throughput was limited to 1Gbps (NIC saturation affects performance, so if  you'll make more bandwidth available at each box, factor that when factoring processor demands).

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