[Opensim-users] Possible to configure how often sim diagnostics are done?

[Chris M]

Hi Justin, I have observed this on several different systems with 
different databases and varying amounts of scripted objects and regions 
(ranging from very few to fairly populated). I see very little CPU use 
for OpenSim when this is happening but yet the systems hang up entirely 
for a while as it's doing it (appx 30 seconds to 1 minute) and only when 
the automated diagnostics starts to output its information to the 
console. This started back sometime midway through development of 0.7.5 
(if I remember correctly) and then it went away for for a little while 
after some commits after it, then reappeared again. So I'm not exactly 
sure when it first started. I would think that git bisect would take a 
good while to do to track it down since I would have to wait an hour per 
test for diagnostics to show up... the show stats command doesn't seem 
to invoke this behavior.

Hi Dahlia, I hadn't thought to check my HDD light as it was happening 
(due to my desk layout it's a bit difficult to see the light from where 
I sit; so I had never just casually glanced over to look.) I will keep 
an eye out for the HDD light when it does it again though.

On 7/31/2013 4:14 PM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
> I'm extremely surprised to hear this - no significant CPU operations 
> are involved in printing this information.  Are you absolutely sure 
> that some other timed script isn't running at the same time? Also, 
> when did this problem start?
>
> On 31/07/13 01:00, Chris M wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I was wondering if it is possible to configure how often the 
>> automated simulator diagnostics is ran, and if so, where at?
>>
>> It seems like every hour when the diagnostics is ran it results in 
>> hanging my entire system up for about 30 - 45 seconds
>> which results in a variety of interesting things such as the viewer 
>> hanging up entirely for that duration, music stops
>> playing if listening to music via external media player, other 
>> programs hang up, etc. It also tends to translate to lag
>> for other people connected to my setup for about that long as well.
>>
>> I know the ideal situation would be to run OpenSim on a system 
>> dedicated to that; but right now I have no choice but to
>> run it on the system that I do all my other daily things on. So I 
>> would like to configure diagnostics to run every
>> say...  8 hours or so? It would make the system hangs a bit more 
>> bearable :)
>>
>> If it's not configurable externally I'm willing to stick my head into 
>> the source code and change it manually there if
>> need be; if I could be pointed to the file and location in the code 
>> to change it... It's just driving me insane lol.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
>


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