Steamcast on FC2

waqario · Post by **waqario** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 10:54 pm

Hey Jay, ive been running the latest steamcast version 0.9.73 and 0.9.72 on a fedora core 2 box

I have been having intermittent problems with the stream dying and the server acting up. It drops clients and messes up quite bad. It runs smooth for quite a while.

When i went back to 0.9.71 on the server, it worked like a charm.

I also have a redhat 9 box and the new version 0.9.73 work fine on that without any problems.

It is just fedora core 2 box that i am having these problems with.

Any help would be appreciated thx.

Post by **Jay** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 5:39 pm

is your fedora core machine a dual processor or Hyper threading machine?

waqario · Post by **waqario** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 7:20 pm

nope it is not.

I actually have 2 fedora core 2 machines. I tried on either one and i get the same problems on both.

Both machines are AMD Athlon XP 2000+ with 768mb of ram.

Post by **Jay** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 7:25 pm

well I have had reports of issues with fedora core 1 machines as well

so it is likely related.

waqario · Post by **waqario** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 8:21 pm

Any clue what exactly it might be? or an eta on a fix?

if not ill have to stick with the old version or rebuild to redhat 9 machine to run the software.

thx

Post by **Jay** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 9:34 pm

wish I could give you something, if you want you can try to (re)build rh7.3 compatibility libs. That is appearently where the problem lies.

djclae · Post by **djclae** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:11 am

Not to undermine all your hard work, but something needs to be done about this problem. If I hadn't been sitting here listening to it and caught it right now, it probably would have taken my Shoutcast servers down with it for the rest of the day.

Post by **Jay** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:08 pm

well I am certainly not tossing it out, I am just saying that as of right now I do not know where the problem is, I have used FC 4 and all appears well with the latest version of steamcast.

djclae · Post by **djclae** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:04 pm

It's certifiable. I'll be listening to Shoutcast, and it will suddenly get stuck buffering irrevocably slowly. The second I kill the Steamcast process it springs back into action as if a huge weight is lifted. I'm seriously considering ditching Steamcast for a while, since I'm stuck with my dual processors, and this is unstable.

Post by **Jay** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 8:00 pm

well I certainly don't want you to have to be stuck in such a situation so I would remove it until a new release that has some CPU handling.

djclae · Post by **djclae** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:31 pm

The trade-off is that if I get rid of it I lose some of the extra exposure it gives me, forwarding from Icecast and stuff.

Post by **Jay** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 5:52 pm

well unfortunately my attention has been towards work as of late. Hopefully soon I can sit down and hammer out a new release.