The server is waiting for request, for each request I am take a video input 
( it can be RTSP input, video file .. ) and output it as 1 image.
for example - 

this.stream = child_process.spawn("ffmpeg", [ "-i", this.url, 
"-rtsp_transport", "tcp",'-f', 'mpeg1video', '-b:v', '800k', '-r', '30', '-'], {
      detached: false
    });
    
    this.inputStreamStarted = true;
    this.stream.stdout.on('data', function(data) {
      return self.emit('mpeg1data', data);
    });
    this.stream.stderr.on('data', function(data) {
      return self.emit('ffmpegError', data);
    });

this is part of the code in the object I wrote, just spawning this child 
process and wait for events in the wrapper.

Its not a problem that the solution is clustering or queue because each request 
execute at the moment its arrive. When I open the Task Manager

I can see only 5 process of ffmpeg.exe , I tried to create manually the process 
from the cmd line and still, the maximum is 4~5 processes.

Any Idea?


On Sunday, June 28, 2015 at 1:43:35 AM UTC+3, ryandesign wrote:
>
>
> On Jun 27, 2015, at 3:16 AM, Ofir Attia wrote: 
>
> > I facing with issue of nodejs and spawning child process. 
> > I have noticed that I can spawn at max 5 instances of ffmpeg instances. 
> > I have a server that listen for requests and each request parsed as 
> ffmpeg instance that working for 5 minutes. 
> > The problem is that the number of the instances is limited for 5 I cant 
> get more instances. 
> > 
> >  I would like to get some advice in this subject, if you faced with this 
> issue ( Not necessarily with ffmpeg ) . 
>
> The web server probably shouldn't spawn long-running processes. Instead, 
> have a separate process to do long-running work, and find a way to 
> communicate between the web server process and the long-running work 
> process. For example, using redis is popular. npm has several modules for 
> helping you manage a work queue. 
>
> However... I'm not sure why spawning more than 5 processes from a web 
> server would be a problem. I'd need to see some code demonstrating the 
> problem. 
>
>

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