[Opensim-dev] Various issues with respect to OpenSim on mono/linux

[James Hughes]

James Stallings II wrote:
> Greetings, Devs :)
>
> I am presently running OpenSim on OSGrid, 5 regions, all under their 
> own instance. I am seeing a great deal of trouble with stability; some 
> well known issues, others that cant be reproduced. I've reason to 
> believe (given stability problems with other OSGrid linux-based 
> regions) that mono is the culprit.
>
> I would like to voulunteer to conduct any testing that might be deemed 
> productive in terms of tweaking mono's build and/or invocation when 
> running OpenSim under linux. This offer comes with some baggage: While 
> I'm an old hand at linux, I haven't really been a windows man for over 
> 10 years, and will need the maximum amount of guidance wrt such testing.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions concerning improving 
> stability/performance under load with OpenSim on linux/mono, please do 
> not hesitate to ask.
>
> Cheers,
> Hiro/daTwitch
>
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I run 3 regions over DSL from my home on Linux, and i really don't see 
many issues. There is the occasional "hiccup" that you can't reproduce. 
But, overall it's good. Building works, LSL works "as advertised", 
avatars can enter and exit the regions fairly good. Reports from other 
users say the regions are responsive. Although, 3-4 avatars are about 
the highest number of visitors at one time, to my knowledge.

The host is a standard Slackware 12.0 setup, with the exception of the 
mono. I removed the mono packages and built mono/mcs and friends from 
svn :Mono JIT compiler version 1.9 (/trunk/ r104276). The truth is, I 
couldn't even get a working OpenSim or Libsl under the stock Slackware 
12 packages. So, I replaced them and had good success. It does take some 
time to compile it all. But, i think probably worth the effort.

Also, Miguel runs a tight program there, things get fixed quickly. I 
know, from experience, that any problems we might find with mono would 
be addressed if we provide good bug reports and ping them on irc.

Anyway, that's my L$2 :)

BlueWall <j>