Originally posted by NerveOSU:
<STRONG>I have an iMac DV 400 with 384 mb of ram. I want to use it as a QuickTime Streaming Server. How may concurrent streams can it handle at 64kbs? (I have plenty of bandwidth)
Will it play all the streams clean? No Skips?
How would adding ram change this?
I have QTSS 4 and OS 10.1.3</STRONG>
Based on my limited experience of QTSS, and assuming you're not talking live streaming, I'd expect your machine to handle about 50 users. The 4000 users quoted on Apple's site are based on a top-of-the-line system presumably with max ram and RAID drives on a gigabit-ethernet network.
There are many, many variables, though. are you streaming the same content to all users simultaneously? and is each user on the same speed line? or is each user streaming a different file at different rates? Live streaming is a whole other ball game.
From what I can tell, RAM is most important when different files and/or speeds are being served. If it's the same file streamed at the same speed to all users ram seems to have less effect.
Also, be careful when you say you have plenty of bandwidth. Unless your server is colocated with an ethernet connection bandwidth will be an issue at some point.
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