This is an issue if all caching is disabled. However, it should have been fine with just disk caching enabled. This is
the default that OpenSimulator ships with - one shouldn't need to do any copying of FlotsamCache.ini.example, though it
won't hurt.
On 14/10/13 16:12, Fleep Tuque wrote:
I'm not sure if there is already a mantis bug report on this and I don't have
time right this second to look, but
thought I'd forward this message along as an FYI. I recall having some
discussions about this with Justin and Neb prior
to OSCC but I don't recall what the resolution was if any.
- Chris/Fleep
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Date: Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: Issue 1096 in singularity-viewer: [AVFACTORY]: Missing baked
texture spamming console
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Comment #1 on issue 1096 by [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>: [AVFACTORY]: Missing baked texture
spamming console
http://code.google.com/p/__singularity-viewer/issues/__detail?id=1096
<http://code.google.com/p/singularity-viewer/issues/detail?id=1096>
As a very interested observer of this issue, but not a Singu team member just a
user, I would like to make a hopefully
helpful comment and also confirm this issue.
I noticed this issue about 2 weeks ago and have been testing extensively since
then as I too suffered it.
I have mostly solved the byproduct; the error message in the log (not the root
cause) by enabling the server cache (copy
the FlotsamCache.ini.example to FlotsamCache.ini - OS setup documents mostly
forget to constantly tell people this
rather important step >.>).
As a side effect loads are also much faster.
Googlefu found and confirmed that enabling *both* memory and disk caching in
the FlotsamCache.ini file must be done to
remove the error. (Devs: Remind me to add the cross reference to OpenSim's
mantis later. hehe.)
With 2 weeks solid testing, it seems at least on my OS regions if you don't
have both settings set to on then the baked
textures are obtained by the server on TP in, but not applied and then lost by
the OpenSim server as it deals with
everything else before finally rendering you. Before this workaround, on my
regions at least, when it came time to
render the avatar I saw the warning in the logs. The previously sent but lost
(due to insufficient server caching) baked
textures are thus re-requested and applied and you finally turn from cloud to
avatar.
(As a hint to the reporter, I also bumped up my cache retention quite a lot as
my three regions are not so high traffic.
I can afford the ram and disk to hold things for 3 days to a week even. YMMV
depending on scenes and visitors.)
All that said:
There is STILL the root cause to this issue as I see it, in that the baked
textures for a new person to the region - to
my inexpert eyes looking at both server and client logs in depth - are done at
the wrong interest level or lost by the
server. As a hint to any developer who looks at this in the future; it's almost
looks like the avatar needs to be baked,
rendered and placed in world before the world is drawn around it... as an
alternative, there could be a new step
included in the initial region processes... draw a known default texture as
skin/eyes until the baked texture is ready.
I suspect Cool does this by displaying a blank white skin, but I've not yet
bothered digging into Henri's code to see
his differences. Avatars on Cool do rez super fast, but they come in as blank
textured, 0xFFFFFF coloured and remain
that way it seems for as long as Singu people are clouds. It's better to look
at.
((Votes +1 for return of your shape but 0xFFFFFF skinned Ruths))
No matter what viewer though... My own server logs after this flotsam change is
made show new people to the region will
be unbaked for a while. Far less than without a server cache though. Some
people will need to force rebake. But the
error is gone.
As a respectful triage hint... I'd love to be proven wrong but this seems like
it's an OpenSim root cause, but I do feel
Singu could handle that failure better. I should discuss it one day in depth
with a dev when new people into my region
stay as a cloud.
Reporter: If you have fcache turned on with both memory and hard disk and are
seeing those errors then my findings are
for a different bug. But as the error messages were the same 2 weeks ago and
I've not had one since... it is worth
writing this.
/me leaves it for the very capable Singu team to research/triage further. ;)
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