Installation guide

Example of distributed process conguration
emaximumlifetimeforconnectionsinthiscongurationis2hoursbecausetheMaxCore
limitissetto4andthenumProcsissetto2.
Tocalculatethemaximum connection time for clients, use this formula:
(MaxCore DIV NumProcs) x Rollover
Example: (4 DIV 2) X 3600 = 7200 seconds (2 hours)
Tocalculatethetotalnumberofprocesses,usethisformula:
Number of Scopes X NumProcs X MaxCores
Exampleusing<Distribute>adaptor</Distribute> with two adaptors:
2 X 2 X 4 = 16 Core processes
TocalculatetheamountofRAMrequiredtosupportthedistributedprocesses,multiplythetotal
processesby4.Eachcoreprocesscanuseupto4GBofRAM;thereforethepreviousexample
with16corescouldconsumeupto64GBofRAM.
Close idle connections
New feature in Flash Media Streaming Server and Flash Media Interactive Server; requires Flash
Player 6 or later.
When clients leave an application, their connection is oen le open. Flash Media Server 3 can
now detect these idle connections and reclaim their resources for new and active clients. When a
clienthasbeenidlelongerthanthemaximumspeciedidletime,(thedefaultis10minutes),the
serverwillclosetheconnection.Toenablethisfeature,youmustsetAutoCloseIdle-
Clients to true in the Server.xml le.OnceitisenabledintheServer.xml le, you can
disable it for individual virtual hosts or individual applications in the Vhost.xml and
Application.x ml les.
Limit connection requests
New feature in Flash Media Streaming Server and Flash Media Interactive Server; requires Flash
Player 6 or later.
Insomecases,ifmanyclientsareattemptingtoconnecttotheserver,thequalityofservicecan
be diminished for those clients who are already connected. By setting the MaxConnection
Rate in the Server.xml le, you can limit the number of connection requests per second that
are accepted.
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