[arm-allstar] Ezstream and NPTEE

[Lee Woldanski]

So, I have a situation where periodically, ezstream barfs and throws the
load average on the machine through the roof, until I kill the processes.

I am using nptee to create two pipes in rpt.conf:

outstreamcmd=/usr/local/bin/nptee,broadcastify,karc

Then, I am starting two streamers, one to Broadcastify, and another one to
a club Icecast server, under screen (line breaks are probably going to mess
this up...):

#! /bin/sh
# Start the stream to Broadcastify
screen -dmS broadcastify  su -c - streamer 'lame --preset cbr 16 -r -m m -s
8 --scale 1.1 --bitwidth 16 /tmp/outsound/broadcastify - - 2>/tmp/stream.s
tatus | ezstream -qvc /etc/ezstream.xml'

sleep 1
# Start the stream to Club
screen -dmS karc  su -c - streamer 'lame --preset cbr 16 -r -m m -s 8
--scale 1.1 --bitwidth 16 /tmp/outsound/karc - - 2>/tmp/stream.status |
ezstream
 -qvc /etc/ezstream-club.xml'


When it works, it works fine. I do see ezstream periodically restarting the
streams when I look at the screen console.

However, once in a while, ezstream dies, and fills the consoles with
repeating:

ezstream: Streaming from standard input

And the load average goes through the roof.

I have to log in, go in to the screen sessions, ctrl-c to stop the streams,
then killall ezstream and lame, and then restart the streams again.


I know there was a cron job to watch ezstream for this with a single
instance running, but what is the best way to watch it when there are
multiple instances running?


Thanks.


Lee



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Lee Woldanski, AScT
VE7FET