Server maximums

[Jon Morris]

Sat. 8/16/25 I watched the last 30 minutes of a WNBA game on KPIX (Main) and then the program changed to the NFL game at 1pm.... about 5 minutes after the start of the football, my screen began to buffer and a warning at the top of the screen appeared saying the 500 viewer server maximum had been reached.  Curious as to what criteria is used to determine who gets knocked off when that maximum is reached? and why I would get knocked off after having established a connection of the WNBA which then transitioned to the first 5 minutes of the NFL before buffering and termination of the connection?

BTW about 10 min. later I tried again and a new connection was established.... does that mean that by happenstance when I tried a new connection it was successful because other viewers had voluntarily dropped out of the Puffer connection? Any rhyme or reason as to which connections get dropped when the server MAX is reached? Is it on a "first come, first serve" basis? Or is some algorithm making that decision based on varying streaming characteristics of each viewer?  Thx

[Keith Winstein]

My understanding is that we don't kick anybody out -- the servers just stop accepting new connections when the maximum is reached. I could believe that means that if somebody's connection is flaky and they are dropped, they might not be able to get back in if somebody then came and took their place.

On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM Jon Morris <jom...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sat. 8/16/25 I watched the last 30 minutes of a WNBA game on KPIX (Main) and then the program changed to the NFL game at 1pm.... about 5 minutes after the start of the football, my screen began to buffer and a warning at the top of the screen appeared saying the 500 viewer server maximum had been reached.  Curious as to what criteria is used to determine who gets knocked off when that maximum is reached? and why I would get knocked off after having established a connection of the WNBA which then transitioned to the first 5 minutes of the NFL before buffering and termination of the connection?

BTW about 10 min. later I tried again and a new connection was established.... does that mean that by happenstance when I tried a new connection it was successful because other viewers had voluntarily dropped out of the Puffer connection? Any rhyme or reason as to which connections get dropped when the server MAX is reached? Is it on a "first come, first serve" basis? Or is some algorithm making that decision based on varying streaming characteristics of each viewer?  Thx

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