BigBlueButton: How to host more concurrent users?

5 Feb, 2021

Are you interested in increasing number of concurrent users that you BigBlueButton server can host? 

Here is a simple fix to improve perofrmance of NodeJS by up to 40%, resulting in increase in the nuber of concurrent users that your server can host.

#1 Edit
/usr/share/meteor/bundle/systemd_start.sh

#2 Replace the last line by
PORT=3000 /usr/share/$NODE_VERSION/bin/node –max-old-space-size=4096 –max_semi_space_size=128 main.js

#3 Restart
service bbb-html5 restart

I hope this helps in conducting better online classes on BigBlueButton!

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