Excerpt from a mail we got on the list: On 02/19/2015 03:07 PM, Stephan Leemburg wrote: > I am working for the NPO, the Dutch Public Broadcasting agency. > > We do a lot of icecast streaming. We run at least 20 icecast server > instances on our media streaming cluster. [...] > > We ran into an issue that clients which where connecting to our streams > seemed to be 'hanging' on the connection setup frequently. The client > 'thinks' it is connected, but no data. > > People suggested that it probably had to do with the poll() call. So, I > looked into that. > > I found that the issue was actually caused by the very low listen > backlog (5). > On our clusters, we typically set this to 8192. Yes it is high, but we > do a _lot_ of streaming and host very high volume websites. Attached are the submitted patches for 2.4, 2.5 and 2.3.3