[Opensim-users] A bit confused

[Marcel Verhagen]

The sending of the fetch request by firestorm sounds a bit strange, since opensim already knows these gestures have to be send to the viewer. Can't opensim just send those gestures and ignore those fetch requests ?

Op 7 nov. 2012 om 17:36 heeft Oren Hurvitz <orenh at kitely.com> het volgende geschreven:

> I've been looking at this issue as well, and it's pretty certain that it's
> due to the number of HTTP inventory requests sent from the viewer. I added
> logging that shows that when the number of incoming HTTP requests to OpenSim
> exceeds about 10/second it starts handling requests very slowly (i.e.,
> handling 50 requests at once is slower than handling 50 requests that come
> in one at a time). I was actually able to improve performance a bit by
> adding delays to make OpenSim accept incoming HTTP connections more slowly!
> But that's a dirty hack, and I'm looking for a better solution.
> 
> I have found that one reliable source of problems happens when a user
> logs-in: the LLLoginResponse packet includes a list of all of the user's
> active gestures, and then the viewer sends *separate* FetchInventory
> requests for each of those gestures. For example, if the user has 50 active
> gestures then the viewer sends 50 HTTP requests at once, and that overwhelms
> OpenSim for a while. During that time other requests from the client are
> also handled slowly.
> 
> I've put in a request to Firestorm (as the leading OpenSim viewer) to change
> their behavior so that they'll request all of the gestures at once: see
> http://jira.phoenixviewer.com/browse/FIRE-8146 . But they've put this issue
> on the "Wishlist", so unless someone steps in (Armin Weatherwax?) this might
> never be fixed on the viewer side.
> 
> 
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