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

[James Stallings II]

Yes I ran my regions locally over DSL on OpenSuse and various debian
variants for the first few years I was involved with OSGrid/OpenSim.

Cheers!

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 22:34 -0500, James Stallings II wrote:
> > 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 ;)
>
> >From what I had to do to setup Diva, I decided to go ahead with mysql.
> >From what I'm reading it's better for overall optimization and speed.
> Mono is currently using about 5% of my CPU with 1 user logged in (me)
> and I had forgot it's still running. Wonderland would eat up about 50%
> and jump higher than that with it's client. This ain't bad! If a new
> version of mono will improve opensim even more, that's great news. It
> just blows my mind to be running .exe anything.
>
> So, I haven't optimized my kernel, as a server boxen, just running
> plain-jane Ubuntu 10.4 32 bit. If I wanted to create a dedicated opensim
> server, I can just dump the overhead of the desktop completely and run
> it command line and burn a lean/mean kernel. So, there is plenty of room
> for improvement. Have you gone this route yet?? Thanks Ric
>
>
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> "There are two Great Sins in the world...
> ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
> Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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