[opensource-dev] [server-beta] Script Memory ManagementAlgorithm

[Maggie Leber (sl: Maggie Darwin)]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Lear Cale <lear.cale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Which is what we mean by "cost".  Price is what you are asked to pay.
> Cost is what you actually pay.

When discussing performance, "cost" would refer to what actually
impacts performance, as in "an expensive calculation".

Here the script memory quota is what you will be charged for (price)
in exchange the right to potentially cause a real performance cost to
the server  (and thus to Linden Research).

Since Linden Research is unable to predetermine the actual cost of
running your scripts, you are charged for what you might possibly do,
because stopping you when you "do too much" would be insanely
disruptive.

More so than what's proposed, anyway.

The price of the "all you can eat" meal when "all you CAN eat" is
based on your land ownership...I see a future in which hordes of bot
avatars are created to use their (free) script memory quotas to run
LSL servers, something like getting "free" prims by using a temp
rezzer.