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those of you that are following the SVN commit mails on opensim-dev
will have noticed that i just checked in a bunch of patches. we recently did stress tests using (a) a bunch of modified pCampBot (modified so that they'd request every texture in sight), (b) a group of volunteers (30-40 clients), (c) an even greedier version of (a). stress test (a) looked fairly good (http://xyzzyxyzzy.net/2009/06/09/81/), so we optimistically scheduled (b). stress test (b) was a big disappointment (http://xyzzyxyzzy.net/2009/06/19/21/), so we went back to the drawing board and worked on the bots to become more like real avatars and also started looking at how we handle the traffic with the client. the reworked bots allowed us to recreate the scenario where we'd essentially render the system unusable once we got past the 20 avatar limit. we've concentrated on the following areas (so far):
The XEngine secition of the example ini says that thetexture sending was a bit more tricky, again to quote alan: This change moves texture send processing out of the main packet processing loop and moves it to a timer based processing cycle.finally, LLPacketHandler and LLUDPServer: while looking (staring?) at the traces we had collected we realized that we might have an issue with the incoming UDP buffer --- checking the specs of both .NET and mono we found out that .NET uses a default socket buffer size of 8K and mono whatever the underlying linux OS was using, which for ubuntu 08.04 and SLES11 turned out to be 111K. both buffer sizes are not really that much (.NET's is a bit of a joke, IMHO) and checking the network stats we did see that the OS was dropping a considerable number of UDP datagrams. so, we added an option to set the receive socket buffer size for LLUDPServer (and also changed the max receive buffer size allowed by the OS via sysctl). setting it to a sufficiently large value got rid of the dropped UDP datagrams. looking at LLPacketHandler we realized that while we were re-using packets (via the packet pool) we were still doing a LOT of List<LLQueItem>(existing List<LLQueItem>) and object copying for stuff like ack sending/resending, dropping packets, etc. it turns out that we can in all cases accomplish the task without those List instantiations and copy operations. going back to our reworked, greedy bots we now got way beyond the 20 avatar mark (repeated 30-40 greedy bots) and, though the system got laggy and slow, we could still move around with our observer avatars and use our in-world tools. so, the changes to texture sending, LLUDPServer, and the streamlining of all those foreach(...) loops seems to be going in the right direction. cheers, DrS/dirk -- dr dirk husemann ---- virtual worlds research ---- ibm zurich research lab SL: dr scofield ---- [email protected] ---- http://xyzzyxyzzy.net/ RL: [email protected] - +41 44 724 8573 - http://www.zurich.ibm.com/~hud/ |
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