[Opensim-users] opensim suddenly breaks

John Hopkin opensim at jfhopkin.karoo.co.uk
Fri Mar 27 01:10:36 UTC 2009


I don't know if this is connected, but I find (Ubuntu 8.10, Mono
2.0.1, MySQL) that the CPU runs near 100% the first time after an
upgrade.  Restart, and then it's much better.

This has happened with every upgrade - I usually take the binaries
from the OSGrid Downloads page.


John Sheridan wrote:

>I've been having that same issue with one of my servers as well.  It 
>would run idle overnight and I'd wake up the next morning to find it 
>racing at 100% cpu and completely unresponsive via client or console.  
>Each time the only message on the console was the periodic diagnostic 
>stating the server's stats.  After a reboot it would be fine for a few 
>hours and then out of nowhere it would start racing again even though it 
>was sitting there idle with no users.  The strange thing is that all of 
>the servers on my grid are running the same configuration with identical 
>OpenSim.ini files, minus the database connection strings.  Each has the 
>hypergrid and stats modules enabled as well 1500 threads per cpu (not 
>sure if that's too much but it to date its yet to create any problems), 
>yet only one out of eleven seems to be doing this. 
>
>It would seem, at least for my configuration that by backing up the 
>config files (and the databases if you're using sqlite) then wiping out 
>the opensim folder and then re-copying a clean build and the config 
>files back in that the problem just goes away at least temporarily.  The 
>last time I've had to do this was Monday night after I ran my weekly 
>update the previous night to 8847.
>
>
>Dirk Krause wrote:
>> You might experience this issue:
>>   http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=2946
>>
>> try entering
>>   MONO_THREADS_PER_CPU=150
>> before you start
>>   mono OpenSim.exe
>>
>>
>> -- Dirk
>>
>> Von: opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de] Im Auftrag von Leandro Morillas
>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. März 2009 21:10
>> An: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
>> Betreff: [Opensim-users] opensim suddenly breaks
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> i installed opensim on a ubuntu 32 server with mono, following instructions from the website.
>>
>> we tested it with a master user and then we made 40 more users and 4 islands.
>>
>> the server runs normally, but suddenly (no special message on console) mono uses 100% of CPU and stops working. The client stops at "Logging in".
>>
>> Opensim console just hangs and i need to kill mono process ID, the i reboot the server and it works again.
>>
>> I haven't found any resources via google, any ideas? some help please :)
>>
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-- 
John Hopkin




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