<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Jeff. We dont yet know how many avatars can simultaneously be in a sim. The 20 number is based solely on the number that could be gathered at a specific time on a specific day. It took a week to get everybody together at 10AM on Saturday a week or so ago. Perhaps you can encourage the next one and help get more then 20, that would be awesome.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">On a technical basis, we did seem to have some clients dropping off on the standalone sim that was being used. It is tough to tell yet if these were internet issues, server os issues or sim issues.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">But, I suspect it would be to our advantage to keep pushing this as we can gather simultaneously on one or another sim on a regular basis. It has been suggested that aiming for Saturdays at 10AM PDT (1700UTC) is a reasonable goal. Lets try to do this again and perhaps some sort of regular in-world meeting or stress tests may come out of it.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Charles<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Jeff Ames <jeffames@gmail.com><BR>To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de<BR>Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 3:14:00 AM<BR>Subject: [Opensim-dev] how many users is too many?<BR><BR>
<DIV>I've heard that OpenSim has supported around 20 or so users online<BR>simultaneously before, although I don't know if that's really an upper<BR>limit, or just how many people happened to be around. But I was<BR>wondering what it would take to push that up to, say, 100 or so.<BR>(More would be great, of course, but at some point the client would<BR>probably break down and revert to text adventure mode.)<BR><BR>Is there a known bottleneck server-side, like handling incoming<BR>requests fast enough to avoid resent packets, bandwidth to maintain a<BR>connection, calculating all the avatar-avatar physics, memory for<BR>avatar state, speed of database access, etc.?<BR><BR>Jeff<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Opensim-dev mailing list<BR>Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de<BR><A href="https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev" target=_blank>https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev</A></DIV></DIV>
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