Chris Hart wrote: > Setting asset_database to "local" will store your assets in a .db sqlite > database on your file system, and not in MySQL at all. If you run in > grid mode, you should always set this to "grid" to avoid confusion > unless you are connecting to someone else's grid and want your assets to > be stored locally and not on their asset server. > > I have to say I made that same mistake when first starting out with > opensim and had to migrate all my assets over to my database server. > Several others have made the same mistake and I've had to help them to > migrate their assets too - is the local storage model really that widely > used? Should it actually be the default? For standalone I'm guessing it > is ignored(?), but in grid mode I've found it just causes pain and > confusion.
Chris is right - I find the asset_database switch annoying because it catches me out on occasion. The problem with using local assets on a grid is one of grid asset blakanization - people coming to your region can't see your assets (because their requests go to the grid asset service rather than your local asset store) and when you go to other people's regions you can't rez objects you created on your local region. But it strikes me that now, if you wanted to retain your regions assets locally, you could set up your region as a hypergrid enabled region, as Hypergrid regions use the local asset store (there is conceptually no global). In view of this, I'd like to completely remove the asset_database option. This would mean that in standalone and hypergrid modes, the db used would always be local and in grid mode the grid asset service would always be used. Are there any objections to this? > > Chris / Strawberry Fride > > -----Original Message----- > From: opensim-dev-boun...@lists.berlios.de > [mailto:opensim-dev-boun...@lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Ai Austin > Sent: 01 February 2009 17:12 > To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de > Subject: [Opensim-dev] asset_database = "local" or "grid"? > > I have MySQL running on the same system that the UGAIM servers are > running on at the moment, though we want to separate some of them out... > > I am wondering if I set asset_database = "grid" rather than > asset_database = "local" is there any performance penalty... or will > it run identically if the assets are in fact local anyway? > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.16/1926 - Release Date: > 01/30/09 17:31:00 > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > -- justincc Justin Clark-Casey http://justincc.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
