What factors other than number of consumers contribute to the cpu usage in the mediasoup worker subprocess?

mediasoup libraries
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Hi All

I’m building an application which makes extensive use of pipe consumers and pipe producers. It all worked great until i tested a many to 1 streaming situation, and I am getting higher cpu usage than I would expect considering the fact that there are very few “non-pipe” consumers

I had previously assumed that the major determinant of cpu usage was consumers based on here: mediasoup :: Scalability

Basically, I would like to know how much the following affect cpu usage:

  • Producers
  • Pipe Producers
  • Pipe Consumers

E.g. does creating pipe consumers on a server increase cpu usage, or is it almost free since the data is transmitted verbatim as indicated here: mediasoup :: API ?

If i had a server with only producers and no consumers, should the cpu usage of the mediasoup subprocess be practically 0?

Thank you for taking the time

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It all uses CPU, whether you produce/consume or utilize pipe transports. You’ll substantially use more CPU re-producing streams to Pipes/etc.

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Thank you.so much