[Opensim-dev] General status of OpenSim on 64 bit Linux Architecture

[James Stallings II]

Nebadon is spot-on wrt the per-region consumption of memory. For whatever
reason, once a region hits about 1.5GB in memory, the region becomes
completely unuseable in any meaningful sense. Unfortunately that is about
the best description I can offer as I no longer have access to the hardware
in question.

The primary reason we ran on such big iron was to put many region on one
machine, and archtiectural decision that was driven primarily by financial
concerns, FWIW.

Also, should probably be noted that most of this work was done with fairly
old versions of opensim - 8653 or thereabouts.

Cheers!
James/Hiro/daTwitch

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Nebadon Izumi <nebadon2025 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Well i don't want to give the impression that no one is using OpenSim in a
> 64 bit environment, i just don't think at this time there is much advantage
> in doing so.  I think in the future we will see more demand for 64 bit in
> OpenSimulator, its just right now opensim doesnt do well consuming large
> amounts of ram on either Windows or in Linux using mono.   And just because
> it runs in 64 bit mode, doesnt mean its actually running better cause it can
> now access more amounts of memory, in my expereince if your OpenSimulator is
> in need ot 64 bit memory access your either doing something extremely
> specialized, or something is very very wrong.  In either case i was simply
> trying to say that the extra issues you could come accross probably wont
> bring you any benefit over going 32 bit at this point of development.
>
> Neb
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