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

Wed Jul 16 08:37:18 UTC 2008

I'm glad so see so much interest, and I've started looking at this 
problem. Can't make any promises of when it will done, but we will get 
there eventually.

Cheers,
Johan

Olish Newman wrote:
> Hello !
> 
> +1 for me too for the same reason :D Thanks a bunch !
> 
> Kind regards,
> Olish Newman.
> 
> Melanie a écrit :
>> 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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