[Galene] Re: estimate memory per user?

["Michael Ströder" <michael@stroeder.com>]

On 12/28/20 7:51 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
>> Is there an estimation or some experience how much RAM would be sufficient
> 
> It's difficult to estimate — the buffers are allocated dynamically, both
> in Galène and in Pion, so the memory will depend on the RTT and on the
> amount of packet loss.

I somewhat expected this answer.

I guess asking for this number *after* system was running into hard
memory pressure was the wrong approach at my side. ;-)

> Please try it and let us know your results.

If everything's running fine the memory footprint per user on Linux
x86_64 seems to be fairly low (10..15 MB/user with send
"lowest".."low"). But I can't provide more exact numbers because I
currently only have 7-8 producers and consumers in one group (while TURN
server is relaying 10..11 MBit/sec). Nowhere near a serious performance
test.

All in all:
Many thanks for providing galene!
- The performance seems to be pretty good (means constant) even on my
insanely small hardware.
- Setup also is fairly easy.
- And while the UI is a bit different from what users are used to with
other systems they have no problem to get into a normal video-conference.

Ciao, Michael.