wiki:Benchmarks
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Benchmarks

1. Hardware

1.1. PC

  • CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz (3000.02-MHz K8-class CPU)
  • Memory: 4GB
  • HDD: 476938MB <Seagate ST3500320AS SD1A> at ata5-master SATA300
  • Network cards
    • Real Tek 8168 / 8168B / 8168C / 8168CP / 8168D / 8111B / 8111C / 8111CP PCIe Gigabit Ethernet
    • Real Tek 8139 10/100BaseTX

1.2. Mac Book Pro

  • CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz L2 Cache: 3 MB
  • Memory: 4GB
  • HDD: 500GB WDC WD5000BEVT-22ZAT0
  • Network cards
    • Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet (RJ-45 connector)
    • 2. Built-in AirPort? Extreme Wi-Fi wireless networking2 (based on IEEE 802.11n draft specification); IEEE 802.11a/b/g compatible

2. Operating systems

  • FreeBSD bsd.devss.ro 7.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-PRERELEASE #2: Mon Jun 22 14:33:26 UTC 2009 root@…:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SHIRETU amd64
  • Darwin shiretu.local 10.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.2.0: Tue Nov 3 10:37:10 PST 2009; root:xnu-1486.2.11~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
  • Linux g-work 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 #2 SMP Fri Dec 4 14:41:13 EET 2009 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz GenuineIntel? GNU/Linux

3. Software used

  • rtmpd revision r875
  • flazr 1.7-RC2

4. Tests

4.1. vod, mac-flazr, FreeBSD-rtmpd, gigabit network

  • 6 flazr instances running on mac, each connecting 100 times
  • 1 rtmpd instance running on FreeBSD
  • number of connections: 600
  • total mean throughput: 80MBytes/s
  • flazr CPU 15%-17% and ~340MB ram per instance (6 of them)
  • rtmpd CPU 15%-20% and 223MB ram

4.2. live, mac-flazr, FreeBSD-rtmpd, gigabit network

  • FMLE publishes h264/mp3 at 800kbits/s
  • 4 flazr instances running on mac, each connecting 100 times
  • 1 rtmpd instance running on FreeBSD
  • number of connections: 401 (400 + 1 connection to see it in action form flash player)
  • total throughput: 30-40MBytes/s
  • flazr CPU 8%-14% and ~320MB ram per instance (4 of them)
  • rtmpd CPU 6%-7.3% and 105MB ram
  • playback time 1 hour and 20 minutes 
    $ sockstat -c|grep :1935|wc -l
     402


last pid:  2929;  load averages:  0.49,  0.29,  0.16  up 0+00:13:58  17:40:10
54 processes:  1 running, 53 sleeping
CPU:  2.1% user,  0.0% nice,  2.8% system, 13.7% interrupt, 81.4% idle
Mem: 126M Active, 49M Inact, 319M Wired, 1644K Cache, 253M Buf, 3452M Free
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free

  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
 2923 shiretu       1   4    0   103M 84052K kqread 1   0:13  6.79% rtmpserver

4.3. live, mac-flazr, Gentoo-rtmpd, gigabit network

  • FMLE publishes VP6/mp3 at 800kbits/s
  • 4 flazr instances running on mac, each connecting 100 times
  • 1 rtmpd instance running on Gentoo
  • number of connections: 401 (400 + 1 connection to see it in action form flash player)
  • total throughput: 30-40MBytes/s
  • flazr CPU 8%-14% and ~320MB ram per instance (4 of them)
  • rtmpd CPU 17% and 60MB ram
  • playback time 30 minutes 
    $ netstat -tanp|grep rtmpserver|grep ESTABLISHED|wc -l
(Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info
 will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
404


top - 17:14:53 up  1:52,  5 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks:   1 total,   0 running,   1 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  2.1%us,  4.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 88.9%id,  0.0%wa,  1.5%hi,  3.5%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   3632816k total,  1035480k used,  2597336k free,    44028k buffers
Swap:  4195760k total,        0k used,  4195760k free,   845472k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 1940 shiretu   20   0 67840  62m 4056 S   17  1.8   2:21.87 rtmpserver