[Opensim-users] A bit confused

[Justin Clark-Casey]

It cannot.  Inventory requests can only be initiated viewer-side.

On 08/11/12 00:00, Marcel Verhagen wrote:
> 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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