[Opensim-dev] Proposal to subdivide the assets table

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Melanie wrote:

> But assets are immutable and a region is a finite space. This makes 
> it an ideal situation for a persistent cache. While we cannot 
> totally remove centralized asset storage, almost all the above 
> points can be achieved by locally caching a region's used assets on 
> disk. This cache can be two-tiered:
> 
> Tier 1: referenced assets, indefinite retention
> Tier 2: unreferenced assets, short term retention
> 
> This means, that textures on a prim would be cached locally forever, 
> but textures that make up the clothing of an avatar passing through 
> would be purged after a day or so.
> For sounds, playing them would re-trigger the retention period, so 
> that looped sounds will effectively be retained forever as well. 
> Same goes for any frequently used asset, however, we should probably 
> not cache object assets.

+1  I think we need a persistent asset region cache.  Moreover, this 
could be done today without any other redesign.

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