[Opensim-users] re-why not a real OS?

[James Stallings II]

Hi Ric,

Mainly the memory footprint. Certain things under mono take significantly
more memory than they do under .net. To add insult to injury, none of mono's
garbage collection (memory reclamation/recycling) are compacting garbage
collectors, so while the process may clean up it's internal memory just
fine, the the operating system is never able to recover below the memory
'high water mark' of the process.

This is set to improve with mono 2.8, which does have one such garbage
collection option, but it is quite new and has yet to be thoroughly tested
in an OpenSim context. Early testing indicate that it will be an improvement
in this condition, but other issues do exist (sqlite for instance).

Do let us know if you have further questions, we're generally full of (ahem)
answers ;)

Cheers and regards,

James/Hiro
SimHost.com


On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 21:19 -0500, James Stallings II wrote:
> > Don't let the operating system religous trolls get ya Chris ;)
> >
> >
> > I'm a die-hard *nix man, but I generally prefer to deploy OpenSim on
> > windows because mono blows goats.
>
> What are the disadvantages of using mono under Linux as opposed to using
> Windows as a server?? I'm new, but after configing mysql, mono compiled
> opensim and it fired immediately up, after the initial Q&A bit. That did
> surprise as well as tickle me the heck out of me. It responds better
> than Wonderland under Java, which I also have on my system.
>
> Inquiring minds want to know. Ric
>
>
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