[Opensim-users] Multi-core, multi-threading OpenSim

[Gwyneth Llewelyn]

Hi all,

A simple and stupid question. I was trying to look for some  
information if OpenSim is multi-threaded and able to automatically run  
on multiple cores, or if due to some limitations of Mono (unknown to  
me), this is impossible. Google seems quiet on this (or I might just  
have been unable to trigger the right combination of keywords that  
provide me with the answer I need).

If so, it would make more sense to launch multiple separate Mono  
instances, each running a set of regions, instead of having just one  
instance with all the regions in that server?

What would you recommend as a more reasonable configuration? I usually  
have Linux installations with 4 virtual cores, and from visual  
observation, only two (sometimes even just one!) is being used all the  
time by OpenSim and Robust. Does Mono somehow pre-bind to a single  
core and never changes? (In that case, launching multiple OpenSim  
instances would all get pre-bound on a single core, thus not really  
making any difference?) For a server that is exclusively used for  
OpenSim, it seems a waste to let all those cores run idle...

Thanks for any input on this :)

Cheers,

	- Gwyn
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