Short Term Solutions To Accommodate More Viewers

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Short Term Solutions To Accommodate More Viewers #4151

Closed bbyrdhouse closed 3 years ago

bbyrdhouse commented 3 years ago

I am not currently able to add more servers into the mix (financial constraints), but I would like to know what I can do to accommodate ore viewers to my AVideo setup.

I am currently able to accommodate 8-10 viewers and then people start reporting that they can not connect to the stream. I am currently using Restream.io to broadcast to Facebook, Youtube, Dlive, Perscope, and Twitch, but a large part of the reason I setup an AVideo server was to allow people to congregate together ... keeping up with all of the those chats while streaming is quite difficult ... I had hoped that I could stream to a couple hundred people at a time and assumed that to be the case. I am disappointed that the max I can get in a stream is 8-10 people.

I want to know, is there anything I can do that would accommodate more viewers for a livestream ... I do have access to a VPS in the event that it would be helpful in this scenario.

Thanks in advance for any guidance or advice.

DanielnetoDotCom commented 3 years ago

what resolution are you streaming? you can try to use the adaptive bitrate, I guess with it on you should be able to handle a lot more. also, you can set up the max resolution to be 480p instead of 720p

DanielnetoDotCom commented 3 years ago

Another important thing is to tune your apache

https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo/wiki/Speed-up-your-page#tuning-your-apache-server

I can do it for you if you want.

bbyrdhouse commented 3 years ago

I have a lot of people that watch on their TV and streaming at 480 is not an option for me. I might be willing to stream at 590 but I don't want to do lower, simply because the quality of video is too poor at 480.

I will look into the Apache tuneup and report back if I need your help.

Thanks

bbyrdhouse commented 3 years ago

Here is what it told me ...

Settings considered for this report:
    Your server's physical RAM:                                   15913 MB
    Remaining Memory after other services considered:             15464 MB
    Apache's MaxRequestWorkers directive:                         150      <--------- Current Setting    
    Apache MPM Model:                                             prefork
    Largest Apache process (by memory):                           24 MB
[ !! ]  Your MaxRequestWorkers setting is too low.
    Your recommended MaxRequestWorkers setting is between 567 and 630.     <-- Acceptable Range (90-100% of Remaining RAM)
    Max potential memory usage:                                   3681 MB
    Percentage of TOTAL RAM allocated to Apache:                  23.14  %
    Percentage of REMAINING RAM allocated to Apache:              23.81  %

based on that ... what changes should or could be made?

DanielnetoDotCom commented 3 years ago

yes, increase it to at least 600

you will be able to handle a lot of more requests

make sure you restart apache when you finish

bbyrdhouse commented 3 years ago

It tells me that [ File '/etc/apache2/mods-enabled/mpm_prefork.conf' is unwritable ]

I don't know how to fix that

DanielnetoDotCom commented 3 years ago

It must be made by command line, I will do it for you

bbyrdhouse commented 3 years ago

I was doing it in terminal

DanielnetoDotCom commented 3 years ago

I just did for you.

you must add sudo before the command.

for example sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/mpm_prefork.conf

bbyrdhouse commented 3 years ago

Ok ... thanks Do I still need to restart Apache?

DanielnetoDotCom commented 3 years ago

No, you are all set.

Now just take care of your live stream output

bbyrdhouse commented 3 years ago

Out of curiosity ... how many viewer can I realistically expect with my current setup at 720 and then at 590? I am sure there is a formula where i could figure it out on my own, but I don't know what that would be.

DanielnetoDotCom commented 3 years ago

Should be a formula, but I definitely do not know

bbyrdhouse commented 3 years ago

LOL ... ok thanks

syldri commented 3 years ago

Hello @DanielnetoDotCom

and I put that tell me this is it good?

DanielnetoDotCom commented 3 years ago

@syldri make yourMaxRequestWorkers 15000

Currently, you made only 1500

syldri commented 3 years ago

Thank you very much

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