[Opensim-dev] Still on Sim and Phys Frames per Second (FPS)

[Seth Nygard]

While I understand the arguments surrounding the original decision to 
report values closely matching "the other grid", IMHO doing so created 
an incorrect understanding in many users' minds of how things work 
and/or behave.  We are not that other grid and should never pretend to 
be.  Had figures been reported correctly in the beginning then there 
would be no confusion now surrounding this subject.  However avoiding 
confusion is a poor reason to roll back and once again report the 
artificially inflated values.   It is better to simply educate and make 
it clear that the value of 11fps is indeed the correct value to expect, 
and is in fact the true value things always have ran at despite what any 
inflated reported value said.

It is true that many scripts and tools have already been written to use 
the inflated values but they can all be changed with relative ease.  The 
viewers already have many aspects that are different for Open Simulator 
so they can be changed easily as well for new versions also with 
relative ease.  All we need to do as a community is establish what the 
correct and expected values are and then document and communicate them.

As a user, scripter, tool developer, and grid manager, I for one want to 
see true and accurate values for any and all metrics regardless of where 
they are shown or how they may be used.  I therefore am firmly against 
rolling back to any older artificially inflated values.

Regards
-Seth