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Subject:    Re: [Opensim-users] Possible to configure how often sim diagnostics are done?
From:       Chris M <mewtwo0641 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2013-07-31 23:36:04
Message-ID: 51F99F64.8090406 () gmail ! com
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Dahlia, I just caught the diagnostics a moment ago and the HDD light 
does come on and stay almost solid on for a good minute or so and then 
starts to fall off to random momentary flashes every once in a while 
(roundabouts the time I am able to regain control of my system again).

On 7/31/2013 5:36 PM, Chris M wrote:
> Hi Justin, I have observed this on several different systems with 
> different databases and varying amounts of scripted objects and 
> regions (ranging from very few to fairly populated). I see very little 
> CPU use for OpenSim when this is happening but yet the systems hang up 
> entirely for a while as it's doing it (appx 30 seconds to 1 minute) 
> and only when the automated diagnostics starts to output its 
> information to the console. This started back sometime midway through 
> development of 0.7.5 (if I remember correctly) and then it went away 
> for for a little while after some commits after it, then reappeared 
> again. So I'm not exactly sure when it first started. I would think 
> that git bisect would take a good while to do to track it down since I 
> would have to wait an hour per test for diagnostics to show up... the 
> show stats command doesn't seem to invoke this behavior.
>
> Hi Dahlia, I hadn't thought to check my HDD light as it was happening 
> (due to my desk layout it's a bit difficult to see the light from 
> where I sit; so I had never just casually glanced over to look.) I 
> will keep an eye out for the HDD light when it does it again though.
>
> On 7/31/2013 4:14 PM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
>> I'm extremely surprised to hear this - no significant CPU operations 
>> are involved in printing this information.  Are you absolutely sure 
>> that some other timed script isn't running at the same time? Also, 
>> when did this problem start?
>>
>> On 31/07/13 01:00, Chris M wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I was wondering if it is possible to configure how often the 
>>> automated simulator diagnostics is ran, and if so, where at?
>>>
>>> It seems like every hour when the diagnostics is ran it results in 
>>> hanging my entire system up for about 30 - 45 seconds
>>> which results in a variety of interesting things such as the viewer 
>>> hanging up entirely for that duration, music stops
>>> playing if listening to music via external media player, other 
>>> programs hang up, etc. It also tends to translate to lag
>>> for other people connected to my setup for about that long as well.
>>>
>>> I know the ideal situation would be to run OpenSim on a system 
>>> dedicated to that; but right now I have no choice but to
>>> run it on the system that I do all my other daily things on. So I 
>>> would like to configure diagnostics to run every
>>> say...  8 hours or so? It would make the system hangs a bit more 
>>> bearable :)
>>>
>>> If it's not configurable externally I'm willing to stick my head 
>>> into the source code and change it manually there if
>>> need be; if I could be pointed to the file and location in the code 
>>> to change it... It's just driving me insane lol.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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