Maxing out a c3.8xlarge instance: 500, 1000 or 2000 simultaneous viewers?

… it seems that Wowza is performing normally and that your issue is with available bandwidth.

I believe you’re right as I have just tried a couple of iperf tests thus bypassing Wowza settings and Java limitations altogether:

Iperf server/host

c3.8xlarge

Iperf clients

t1.micro = 141 Mbits/sec
c1.medium = 950 Mbits/sec
c3.8xlarge = [B][COLOR="#FF0000"]1.73 Gbits/sec[/COLOR][/B]

The same limit of ~ 1.7 Gbps applies outside of the Wowza enviroment. I found this thread where other users are trying to saturate a 10 GbE, but experience limits of around 3 Gbps. There are mentions of increasing a linux ulimit as well as doing modifications to the network driver. Does it seem likely that it is the same factors that is holding the c3.8xlarge back?