From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 5 14:32:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA16470 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 14:32:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hyperreal.org (taz.hyperreal.org [209.133.83.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA16452 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 14:32:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@hyperreal.org) Received: (qmail 10191 invoked by uid 24); 5 May 1998 21:32:45 -0000 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980505143742.007b4eb0@hyperreal.org> X-Sender: brian@hyperreal.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 14:37:42 -0700 To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brian Behlendorf Subject: streaming media serving w/FreeBSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Has anyone used FreeBSD for *extensive* RealMedia serving, particularly video? I.e., have you done load tests to determine exactly how many streams a FreeBSD server with a given CPU/mboard/memory/disk/network IO configuration can handle. I may have an application which will need 1000's of simultaneous streams, and I'd like to host it on the platform I feel gives the greatest serving power per dollar, which currently seems to be FreeBSD. Also looking for experience on using reflectors for live content... Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- pure chewing satisfaction brian@apache.org brian@hyperreal.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message