User Guide

174 Configuration Files
MaxStreams
This tag specifies the maximum number of streams that can be created.
Description
The default number of streams is 250000.
MaxUnitSize
Located in LargeMemPool, MessageCache, SegmentsPool, and SmallMemPool containers.
This tag specifies the size threshold for messages that can be returned to the cache.
Description
The threshold is specified in kilobytes. The default threshold size is 16 kilobytes.
MessageCache
Container tag.
Description
This section contains the tags that control how the message cache holds onto messages used in
the Flash Media Server system. The message cache retains the messages in memory for reuse
instead of returning them and repeatedly requesting them from the operating system.
Messages are the essential communication units of Flash Media Server and recycling them
improves Flash Media Server performance.
Contained tags
FreeMemRatio, FreeRatio, GlobalRatio, MaxAge, MaxCacheSize, MaxCacheUnits,
MaxUnitSize, UpdateInterval
Mode
The Mode tag configures whether Flash Media Server runs locally as an origin server or
remotely as an edge server.
Description
The Mode tag can be set to local or remote. The default setting is local.
■ When the Mode tag is set to local, the Flash Media Server runs its applications locally
and is called an origin server.
■ When the Mode tag is set to remote, the server behaves as a proxy or edge server that
connects to the applications running on an origin server.