[Opensim-users] Who is running opensimulator on a x64 (windows) based system?

Tue Apr 3 22:11:01 UTC 2012

doesn't windows have virtual memory ?

on my box it starts to use virtual memory on my hard disk. it for sure then
gets a bit laggy and sometimes unresponsive but it should not crash...

Op dinsdag 3 april 2012 schreef InuYasha Meiji (inuyasha.meiji at gmail.com)
het volgende:

> I am running Windows 7 x64 and the only problem I found is I may need a
> memory upgrade.  It is running much better since 0.7.3, except one little
> thing.  The new x64 ability allows it to use to much of my RAM.  I am one
> of those people running 2024sq of land.  So far no lag, and only a couple
> of the regions with stuff built.  It I leave it alone running only the one
> instance of opensim.exe it leaves me with 1011MB of my 8GB.  I use Phoenix
> Firestorm when on my grid and that takes up a ton too.  I run a small
> gadget on my desktop that watches my RAM.  With Windows 7 x64 running and
> only those two items I get a warning telling me I have only 500MB free.
>
> I am a bit worried that one I start building on the other regions my
> system will crash out with an out of memory error.  It has done that
> already when I tried to open Firefox (The browser) while both opensim and
> Phoenix Firestorm at the same time.  I am going to start saving for one of
> those new AM3+ bulldozer 8 core, machines with a ASRock mobo that can hold
> 32GB of ram, and hope my computer grows to fit the needs of opensim.  This
> might take me a year or two.
>
> I just wanted to help with my two cents on the new opensim 0.7.3. running
> on Windows 7 x64.  I haven't yet tried uploading any OAR files.  But I have
> noticed being logged out for trying to fly from one end of my 2048sqm to
> the other.  Sometimes I make it, other times I don't.
>
> Good luck.
> InuYasha
>
>
> On 4/3/2012 2:39 PM, Fleep Tuque wrote:
>
>> I'm running opensim on a Windows 64bit system and overall it seems to
>> work ok.  I recently had an issue with intermittent system crashing after
>> loading a large OAR file that turned out to be (most likely) an issue with
>> Opensim running out of memory.
>>
>> The full thread/discussion is at: http://opensim-users.2152040.**
>> n2.nabble.com/Intermittent-**crashing-System-**OutofMemoryException-**
>> td7281298.html<http://opensim-users.2152040.n2.nabble.com/Intermittent-crashing-System-OutofMemoryException-td7281298.html>
>>
>> The solution was to separate out the regions into multiple opensim
>> instances.
>>
>> This problem occurred with the 0.7.2 release, but I understand the 0.7.3
>> release allows you to run opensim as a 64 bit process which takes better
>> advantage of memory resources, so not sure which version you're running,
>> but if you haven't upgraded to 0.7.3 yet, might try that and see if the
>> issues persist.
>>
>> Hope that helps!
>>
>> - Chris/Fleep
>>
>>
>> Chris M. Collins (SL/OS: Fleep Tuque)
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>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:28 PM, OpenSimFan <info at verwijs-pc.nl <mailto:
>> info at verwijs-pc.nl>> wrote:
>>
>>    Who is running opensimulator on a x64 (windows) based system?
>>    and how is this going?
>>
>>    with me, when i load a large amount of prims inworld with a oar file,
>>    opensim crashes without writing the crash to opensim.log... (so i
>>    can't show
>>    you)
>>
>>    but..
>>    Windows error reporting makes crash reports. if you want to see
>>    them, let me
>>    know...
>>    they don't tell you much (i think) but its better than nothing...
>>
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