On 2009-01-27 09:36:04 -0500, jjusti...@googlemail.com wrote: > > Does anyone have any figures for how much it costs to host OpenSim > > regions in terms of hardware etc.? I remember the story about a Second > > Life sim alledgedly using more power than a typical Brazilian! What are > > the typical hardware system requirements? > > This is a perennial question which doesn't yet have a good answer. > I do remember seeing a short page on the wiki somewhere on this but > I can't remember the link.
Perhaps you're thinking of: http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Hardware_Selection_Guide Of course, that's not necessarily a representative sample... of the thousands of OpenSim regions currently running this page only accounts for <20. :) To the original question: unfortunately it depends. Depends on now many regions per sim, how many sims per server, how many simultaneous avatars will be in those regions, how many scripts will be running and of what kinds, how many prims in those regions, etc. There was some anecdotal conversation on #opensim or #osgrid yesterday (don't remember which) where people suggested not running more than 10 regions per sim. One of the (many) nice things about OpenSim is that if you use the grid-mode functionality then it's easy to move regions around to different machines, allowing you to easily add hardware if your needs require. -Coyle _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev