[Opensim-dev] Open Simulator Metrics Reporting Changes (Phase 1) (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Kevin]

On 2015-04-17 11:28, Maxwell, Douglas CIV USARMY ARL (US) wrote:
> Time Dilation:
> Previous:  Originally just returned the PhysicsScene value for 
> TimeDilation
> which is 1.0.
> 
> New:  The time it took for the physics and simulation to run not 
> including
> the sleep time, divided by the minFrameTime passed into the program 
> from the
> OpenSimDefaults.ini file variable MinFrameTime. This would mean that a 
> value
> of 1 is no sleep necessary, less than 1 and the program slept for some
> remaining amount of time, and greater than 1 the physics and simulation 
> took
> longer to run than the allotted time.

The proposed changes to the stats seem reasonable to me until I got to 
Time Dilation. The way I read your proposal might alter the behaviour of 
some scripts or might affect, or possibly break, some external grid 
administration systems that use Time Dilation. The way I understand Time 
Dilation is that it varies from 0 to 1 and a number less than one is 
usually a sign of lag in the region. Your proposal seems to indicate 
that values can range from less than one to more than one with less than 
one being better than if TD is 1.

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Cheers!

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