Comments on: all regions not created equally http://iliveisl.com/all-regions-not-created-equally/ avatar ramblings from the virtual world Mon, 20 May 2013 18:50:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Breen Whitman http://iliveisl.com/all-regions-not-created-equally/comment-page-1/#comment-26010 Breen Whitman Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:19:05 +0000 http://iliveisl.com/?p=17689#comment-26010 “OpenSim actually did not suck – only the way i was using it sucked!”

Much like the so called KFC “Secret Recipe”, I found Opensim’s hardware requirement to be a bit of a mystery.

My initial experiences of Opensim was poor. I tried to be clever, monitored hardware usages and bumped it a little.

All should be good right? Wrong.

Eventually I settled on roughly the following hardware formula for Opensim:

(Avg Ram usage x 2) + 4GB + “An amount till it was stable”GB + 2GB + Largest CPU that seemed affordable.

My analogy: Opensim is like a medium sized car. But it needs a 4 lane motorway to itself to get from A to B.

What is the Opensim Secret Recipe?

]]> By: Ener Hax http://iliveisl.com/all-regions-not-created-equally/comment-page-1/#comment-26009 Ener Hax Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:19:01 +0000 http://iliveisl.com/?p=17689#comment-26009 good point about connectivity and i am spoiled with fiber optic (it’s actually $20 cheaper than cable in my area!)

broadband speed and ping times are just as important because slow for either means lots of frustration for the end user =(

]]> By: Han Held http://iliveisl.com/all-regions-not-created-equally/comment-page-1/#comment-26006 Han Held Fri, 12 Oct 2012 05:31:29 +0000 http://iliveisl.com/?p=17689#comment-26006 I’ve been using opensim for a couple of years and I know for me it’s been very frustrating trying to figure out basics such as “I have X hardware, what can I expect to do with it”. About the only clear and consistent answers I seem to have is that

a)when it comes to opensim, there’s no place like 127.0.0.1 !

b)if your internet connection is less than half a meg up, don’t bother. And a meg a sec up might even be considered minimal now. Every now and then I hook up to osgrid from my home just to re-experience the frustration of constant ack timeouts.

c)my vps (not yours, not anyone elses) can comfortably hold 4 sims and only use up 1 gig out of 2, and when it gets down to 700 megs free it’s time to reboot.

All of those I’ve figured out by trial and error. When it comes to the consumer side of opensim, it seems like the answer you’re most likely to get is -go get a sim provider and don’t worry about it.

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