[Opensim-dev] load sharing.....

[Melanie]

Hi,

+1 from me, too. I would use it for my welcome region, to make sure 
it's always up.

Melanie

バンション ヨハン wrote:
> Don't read too much into my comment. I only want to know that this feature is useful for someone before I start coding. Just a matter of getting the priorities right. Now that it seem like I I have two happy customers (Terry and Ckrinke) waiting, I will see what I can do :)
> 
> /Johan
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Terry F." <terry at usfastweb.com>
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 12:31:58 PM (GMT+0900) Asia/Tokyo
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] load sharing.....
> 
> Hi Johan,
> 
> Thank-you for your reply.
> I understand your concern.
> My thoughts are along the lines of making sure a region doesn't suddenly 
> crash during an event such as an important meeting or other event.
> Some events take a bit of planning to put into place and would be a 
> shame to spoil all that hard work with a crash, especially if it 
> happened while the meeting was just getting started. What chaos that 
> would be trying to get it back up and everybody logged back in, etc.
> 
> I understand that this may not be of great importance at the moment... I 
> wasn't trying to "Challenge" anyone to take up the project. I'm certain 
> there are other more important things where you could spend your time... 
> I was just thinking of the potential for a feature like this and it 
> seemed like it may be similar to the load - balancing feature already in 
> place.
> 
> Thanks again!
> -Terry
> 
> 
> ????? ??? wrote:
>> Hi Terry,
>>
>> As Adam suggested, the 3Di load balancing code has much of the functionality you request. We can already clone a region and specify for each copy how much it should update. We haven't implemented the scenario you describe (an active region with a standby region that you could switch do), but it is just a matter of extending the GUI and making small extensions to the current code. 
>>
>> So it is no technical problem, but is it worth doing? Who do you think would be interested in this functionality? I could do this, or direct someone to do it, if it is useful, but if it ends up not being used I'd rather use my time on other things.
>>
>> /Johan
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Adam Frisby" <adam at deepthink.com.au>
>> To: terry at usfastweb.com, opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
>> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 3:14:20 PM (GMT+0900) Asia/Tokyo
>> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] load sharing.....
>>
>> I know the 3Di load balancing code could potentially lend itself to this sort of application.
>>
>> The best method would be to somehow serialise the scene regularly and send that to a home sim, then write an application plugin to catch exceptions and if one occurs, manually send a "force teleport" (also known as a border crossing packet) to jump the user onto the standby.
>>
>> I don't actually think that would be insanely difficult to do.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>   
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-dev-
>>> bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Terry F.
>>> Sent: Sunday, 13 July 2008 9:59 PM
>>> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
>>> Subject: [Opensim-dev] load sharing.....
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> This question is being directed towards those of you with the
>>> load-balancing knowledge, but others may know as well.
>>> Hope it doesn't come across as a silly question.
>>>
>>> Would/could the load-balancing abilities be able to be configured in
>>> such a way as to act like a "Mirror" and take over the region serving
>>> responsibilities in the event of a simulator crash until the server was
>>> able to be restarted?  Or... would the "Crash" event simply cause a
>>> crash of all "Mirrored" instances as well?
>>>
>>> Just a thought... didn't know if it were a possibility or just wishful
>>> thinking.
>>>
>>> Thank-you for your time,
>>> -Terry
>>>
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