*> First stage of the new interactive region creation.* This sounds extremely interesting. Interactive region creation sounds like an excellent idea.
Will this by any chance allow interactive "on-demand" region loading? If you calculate just the total LAND area of Earth is 148,940,000 km², or approximately 29.2% of earth's surface (510,072,000 km²). Which would require almost 4 Trillion (3,969,931,719,726) 1km x 1km square regions (or approximately 64 Trillion 256mx256m regions). As virtual content developers (and architects) slowly begin designing realistic content (and region/land terrain data to create virtual land based on GIS imagery & elevation data), it's very easy to see how scalability problems can become a major issue with the current architecture. At the present moment, OpenSim consumes way too many system resources, and requires way too many servers to do anything large scale (like model a planet). It would be nice if idle regions didn't use any system resources on a server and could be loaded "on demand" (like web pages) as a user teleports into an idle region, then the region would automatically be started/loaded. This way idle regions don't consume any resources on the server. Idle regions would need to shut down automatically (after a "time out" period) and not consume any system resources while idle regions are unused and idle. Then loaded (on-demand) as users enter an idle region. As users enter an idle region (or a nearby region) then the regions would be started up automatically (on demand), so that the regions can be accessed. Similar to how web pages don't require any system resources (other than hard drive space) until they are accessed/served to users. It would be nice to have idle regions not consume any system resources so that we can begin modeling large-scale land or even space region areas, such as a large cities, planets, solar systems, or even forests without having to waste large amounts of server equipment (for idle regions with no active users). This way large-scale areas (like Yellowstone, or large cities or even planets like Mars) could be developed, and could be run on one or two servers, and hundreds or thousands of connecting regions (just like millions of web pages on a server) could be stored on only a few servers and regions could simply load (on-demand) as needed. This way you could store thousands of region areas on a SINGLE server (similar to a web server), and all the idle regions wouldn't use any system resources unless a user enters or teleports to an idle/empty region. Then the region would be started up (on-the-fly) so the user can access the region. Then have "time-out" periods for regions, in the region configuration file, so if a region stays empty or idle for more than 30 minutes (user configurable) then the idle region would shut down to conserve system resources. This way only active regions are loaded (and running) and idle regions are unloaded (and not consuming any system resources on the server). On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Justin Clark-Casey < jjusti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Melanie, could you explain in greater detail what you're doing here? How > is region creation going to change? > > Thanks, > > -- justincc > > - Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > commit dcf18689b9ab29d4ceb2348bb56fc1f77a7a8912 > Author: Melanie <mela...@t-data.com> > Date: Tue Mar 23 02:05:56 2010 +0000 > > First stage of the new interactive region creation. This will allow > creation > of a region and joining it to an existing estate or creating a new > estate, > as well as creating an estate owner if in standalone, and assigning > estate > owners. In Grid mode, existing users must be used. MySQL ONLY!!!! so far, > as > I can't develop or test for either SQLite or MSSQL. > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev >
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