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1. Re: FMLE Program Freezes when Many Viewers Connect
fmeuser Jul 16, 2009 10:55 PM (in response to mrwizzer2)Number of connections to FMS has no correlation with FMLE performance. The problem should be somewhere else. Please share your system configuration on which you are running FMLE. Please also note down the CPU usage while FMLE is getting frozen. What kind of device setup are you using, please explain a bit about it. With less number of connections how long FMLE has been running without any problems. Please also share the FMLE session log file (by default created inside MyVideos directory).
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2. Re: FMLE Program Freezes when Many Viewers Connect
mrwizzer2 Jul 22, 2009 12:34 PM (in response to fmeuser)Thanks for your help. Here are some answers to your questions:
Running Windows XP, Pro Version 2002, Service Pack 2 on an Intel Xeon
5160 @ 3GHz
2.99 Ghz, 2GB Ram
We're running Video Toaster on the same PC to provide the video content for the live webcasts.
Unfortunately, I can't make it misbehave without scores of people connected, so I can't tell you what the CPU usage is when it's acting up, but I can tell you that CPU usage is up to 85% when it is working, (and that number didn't include an audio signal).
We ran a test (albeit limited movement - just a clock ticking) for several hours with no problems.
Attached are the FMLE session log files from that fateful morning. ; )
Thanks!
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FMLE Logs.zip 62.0 K
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3. Re: FMLE Program Freezes when Many Viewers Connect
fmeuser Jul 23, 2009 6:40 AM (in response to mrwizzer2)85% cpu is on the higher side. 70-75% is on the safer side. Devices could give data with incorrect timestamps if not much cpu is available. I would suggest you to use a higher power machine and ensure that usage doesn't go above 75%. You can also experiment with vp6 and h264, both consume different amount of cpu.
Secondly, If the bandwidth is congested between FMLE and FMS, FMLE will not be able to push data at the same rate. When more number of users connect, what was the bandwidth usage? If FMLE can't push the data, rtmp buffer length and its memory usage will also increase. You can watch the rtmp buffer lenght in the FMLE stats window. Please also check the memory usage next time when FMLE freezes.
You are using 3.0 version. Please upgrade to 3.0.1 and try the above suggestions.

