[Opensim-dev] OpenSim Hardware Requeriments

Thu Feb 19 06:21:02 UTC 2009

Thanks Dirk and Melanie! Will let you know how my experiments come out.

Geetika Sharma

opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de wrote on 02/19/2009 11:45:12 AM:

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> I always had that on my list to try this, but didn't try it yet :-).
>
> As far as I understood you should be able to divide your region in
> parcels. Each parcel can have a different media stream.  So what I
> wanted to try was to divide one big conference room into N parcels
> each with a media stream of the participant.  This should work with
> N = not too high :-).
>
> But I don't know if the client can display multiple streams, or
> whether it just plays the stream of the very parcel you stand in.
>
> Indeed I would expect that
> - the number of concurrent streams is limited by the clients connection
> - the client probably will have problems displaying more than say 3
> streams (wild guess)
>
> Just open several streams in a browser and you will find the practical
limit.
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de im Auftrag von Geetika S
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> Thanks Dirk. But how does one do multiple simultaneous streams cause the
> media url can point to only one address? Also, would multiple
simultaneous
> streams slow down the client?
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> Geetika Sharma
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> opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de wrote on 02/19/2009 11:22:27 AM:
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> > Since the display of the media streams are totally unrelated to
> > OpenSim (except invocation and termination), meaning OpenSim only
> > knows the link and the streaming is between the viewer and the
> > streaming server, it shouldn't affect the avatar limit at all, esp
> > when the streaming server is on a different machine.
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> > Is it possible to do multiple webcam streams in a single region? How
does
> > that affect the avatar limit? I want to set it up using Darwin.
> >
> > Thanks
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> > Geetika Sharma
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> > opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de wrote on 02/19/2009 11:05:09 AM:
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> > > Melanie <melanie at t-data.com>
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> > > No one has ever gotten there. It has always crashed.
> > >
> > > Melanie
> > >
> > > Geetika S wrote:
> > > > But in any case doing 50+ avatars would be murder, right?
> > > >
> > > > Geetika Sharma
> > > >
> > > > opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de wrote on 02/19/2009 10:53:04
AM:
> > > >
> > > >> Melanie <melanie at t-data.com>
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> > > >> Re: [Opensim-dev] OpenSim Hardware Requeriments
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> > > >> You can't currently hard-limit anything. We have seen 20+ avatars
in
> > > >> regions with 6000+ prims on less memory than that.
> > > >> Generally, avatars take more memory than prims.
> > > >>
> > > >> Melanie
> > > >>
> > > >> Geetika S wrote:
> > > >> > Hi
> > > >> >
> > > >> > If you do provide 1GB per region, what limits does one need to
> > impose
> > > > on
> > > >> > number of avatars, scripts objects etc.?
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Thanks
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Geetika Sharma
> > > >> >
> > > >> > opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de wrote on 02/19/2009
09:52:30
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> > > >> >
> > > >> >> Dahlia Trimble <dahliatrimble at gmail.com>
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> > > >> >> 02/19/2009 09:52 AM
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> > > >> >> Re: [Opensim-dev] OpenSim Hardware Requeriments
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> > > >> >> It really matters how much memory the region is using. If you
> don't
> > > >> >> have enough, the system will need to use swap space and that
will
> > be
> > > >> >> perceived as lag spurts. How much memory you use is dependent
on
> > how
> > > >> >> many avatars are online, how many prims and how complex they
are,
> > > >> >> and how many scripts are running, among other factors. You can
do
> > > >> >> fine with 512 MB if you control those factors.
> > > >> >
> > > >> >> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Bernardo Donadio
> > > > <bernardo0c0d at gmail.com
> > > >> >> > wrote:
> > > >> >> Thanks for the quick response, but what can happens if i run
for
> > > >> >> example with 512MB? The server will have a high ping or what?
> > > >> >> Thanks again for all!
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >> >As a rule of thumb, 256MB per sim is an operative minimum, but
> > mono
> > > >> >> >really likes to see 1GB per region to be happy.
> > > >> >> >
> > > >> >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> >> >2009/2/19 Bernardo Donadio <bernardo0c0d at gmail.com>
> > > >> >> >
> > > >> >> > Hi!
> > > >> >> > I'm new on OpenSim and I want to make a server. But I don't
> know
> > > >> >> what I will need to do one, for a server with only one 256x256
> > > >> >> region, and something about 8~10 users at same time, what I
will
> > need?
> > > >> >> > The server will run Linux Debian 5.0, probably with an
> optimized
> > > >> >> kernel and in a Virtual Machine.
> > > >> >> > Thanks for all!
> > > >> >> >
> > > >> >> > --
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