[Opensim-users] Having some problems with XEngine under Linux

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Chris, your experience does sound excessive but I don't think that there is any specific setting 
that you can tweak here.  It may simply be the case that Mono is currently slower to compile these 
things than is Windows.

Chris Kennedy wrote:
> Also tried reducing the number of scripts to load, while this does 
> obviously make for shorter load time, the amount of time taken per 
> script to load in Linux is still significantly longer than it takes the 
> Windows version to load (i.e. Windows OpenSim can load 6 or 7 scripts by 
> the time Linux OpenSim has loaded 1 and barely starting to work on 
> another one.)
>  
>  
> 
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Chris Kennedy <mailto:mewtwo0641 at cox.net>
>     *To:* opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
>     <mailto:opensim-users at lists.berlios.de>
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, February 02, 2010 10:05 PM
>     *Subject:* [Opensim-users] Having some problems with XEngine under Linux
> 
>     I've compiled the latest git revision as of today on Windows 7 32bit
>     and also on Linux (Ubuntu Jaunty) 32bit. I have about 85 scripts to load
>     in 1 region in standalone using MySQL as the database and XEngine
>     for scripts.
>      
>     In Windows, OpenSim will load up all the scripts in less than a
>     minute, 2 minutes tops, and
>     also unload XEngine plus scripts on 'quit' command in a few seconds.
>      
>     However, when running OpenSim under Linux (on the same computer,
>     different boot disk) it takes over
>     5 minutes to load all of the scripts and it takes a couple minutes
>     (at least)
>     to unload XEngine and the scripts from memory to shut the server down.
>      
>     I've tried tweaking my settings for mono and also MySQL to no avail.
>     Have also
>     tried tweaking the settings in the XEngine setting in OpenSim.ini
>     such as the Min
>     and Max Threads and Priority = "Normal" (rather than BelowNormal as
>     default).
>      
>     Have also tried the same setup on 2 other computers of mine with the
>     same issues.
>     The latest stable release with post fixes also exhibits this issue
>     (0.6.8 as of this writing).
>      
>     Can't seem to find any info on the opensimulator wiki, mantis,
>     or on Google/Other search engines.
>      
>     Only other info I can think of to give is machine specs:
>     Linux Mint 7 a.k.a. Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04)
>     Mono 2.4.2.3
>     MySQL 5.1.31
>     AMD Phenom Tri Core @ 2.3 ghz
>     3 GB RAM
>      
>      
>     I would like to use Linux for OpenSim rather than Windows.
>     Does anyone know what might be causing this and how I can fix it; or
>     a point in
>     the right direction please? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> 
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