Use bitrate instead of videostreams for load balancing.

[bgrozev]

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[paweldomas]

If we know it's a better metric and will not be going back to video streams, maybe we should get rid of the logics for estimating the video stream count ?

[bgrozev]

I think that makes sense, Pawel. But let's take a look at how well this works first. I'll add this to my list

[paweldomas]

Btw. is the bitrate statistic relatively consistent over time ? Im wondering if there are any big variations over short periods of time.

Also I suspect it may not behave perfectly when starting up a lot of conferences/participants at the same time. That's why the "video stream" estimation was introduced, to handle well bursts of channel allocations

[paweldomas]

I don't remember though why handling burst of channels was important. One case I can think of is conference migration when bridge goes down, but it's a corner case.

[bgrozev]

It seems pretty stable. We get updated stats every 5 seconds, so it should be fine

[bgrozev]

One case I can think of is conference migration when bridge goes down, but it's a corner case.

Oh, yes, that's a good point!