[2009/11/27 20:21]  Babbage Linden: (Saved Fri Nov 27 11:57:30 2009) Hello, I'm currently looking for residents to compare the performance of their regions when running on the main grid and a new version of the simulator that I'm testing on the beta grid. We would set up a copy of your region on the beta grid and then ideally you would be able to run events or other intensive activities on both copies of your region and compare the performance. Would you be able to help me out? Thanks, Babbage
[2009/11/27 20:26]  Suzanna Soyinka: Hello Babbage I believe we already have a copy of the primary Lost Angels sim on aditi as of this time and when it comes to performance related issues I'm always willing to help but I would like a small question answered in return in regards to it. After the 1.25 server release regionsay comms appear to have been throttled and have an extremely small buffer, this of course goes against the known resource allocation to communications in regards to channel comms, where it was previously believed regionsay comms were more or less unlimited, previous to 1.25 CCS itself had been operating on RegionSay heavily to not overwhelm communications on whisper/say/shout, and now it seems regionsay got capped. My question here is, none of this was ever communicated, there are never any server version patch notes, when I contacted Concierge they said there was no place to read the changes to server versions anywhere, and I found that to be a bit annoying. I do have a business based around LSL functionality, if the communications features of LSL change, that can impact me fairly heavily, so I'm just wondering why these changes aren't documented somewhere publicly.
[20:01]  Babbage Linden: (Saved Tue Dec 08 08:40:17 2009) Thank you for agreeing to help me test the performance of the new version of the simulator that I'm working on. Your region should now be running on aditi with the new software. Please log in to the Beta grid, compare the performance of your region there against the version running on the main grid using the statistics bar and let me know your results. I am particularly interested in comparisons of the simulators under load, so if you could run events or other intensive activities on both versions of your region and compare the performance I would be very grateful. You should be aware that there is a known issue with this version that can cause attached scripts to stop when entering the region and if you are making HTTP requests from your region you should be sure to check the X-SecondLife-Shard header and ignore any requests maked Testing to avoid the beta version of your region affecting your production system. Please let me know if you have any problems. I'm looking forward to seeing your results.

Once again Linden Labs is calling on us to help them test out a new server version with the ideas focused around peformance. So I'd like to get a date set up probably sometime between this weekend and next weekend where we can do a CoLA/CCS Community pile on at the aditi test grid CoLA and try to break it. Hopefully its because they have a version they think we can't break, which would be cool if they could.

So with that in mind, I'm thinking a December 12th Public@6:00PM SL Time Live Grid pile on for the live grid CoLA sim all CoLA/CCS members that are interested in creating some stress metrics for the live grid, then after an hour of killing the sim, we'll move to the Aditi Test Grid Lost Angels, and do the same there for around an hour.

You never know folks, they might have fixed something this time. Lets find out shall we?

RVSP in the following thread in the forums!