[sldev] Bandwidth requirements
Jesse Malthus
JesseMalthus at gmail.com
Tue Jan 23 03:44:06 PST 2007
I'm no Linden, but if I read correctly the First Look viewer has an
uncapped cache size.
On 1/22/07, Tim Shephard <tshephard at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree David, with terrabyte hard drives coming out, it would be nice
> to hear some background to the decision to cap out caches to 1GB (at
> least according to the user interface).
>
> I'd like to say it's a very large gaping hole in the architecture, but
> I think there must be some reasoning since it's been this way for so
> long and theoretically would be very easy to fix.
>
> Can a linden comment on this?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tim.
>
> On 1/22/07, David Baker <david_baker at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have been looking at the open source codebase with an eye to seeing what
> > can be done to reduce the bandwidth requirements of the client - both from
> > the client's perspective and from LL's perspective. My general thoughts on
> > this have been that the client would benefit from:
> > 1) a caching system that actually works - if SL can take 1GB of my hard
> > drive to cache things it downloads, how come when I log out of SL and
> > immediately log back in in the same place everything has gone grey?
> > 2) the ability to share assets on a peer-to-peer basis - which should
> > hopefully reduce loads on LL servers (possibly allowing them to support mroe
> > avatars per simulator), improve load times for those of us in far-flung
> > places and potentially permit the favoring of data from other users sharing
> > an ISP.
> >
> > My motivation in this is that, as an Australian, I am on a capped data
> > Internet plan and when you only have 20GB/month available to you the fact
> > that SL likes to use 200-250MB/hour gets quite limiting. Anything that can
> > be done to reduce this would definitely improve take-up in Australia (and
> > remove my temptation to upgrade to a $130/month plan).
> >
> > Has anyone else been looking at this? Care to compare notes?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > David
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--Jesse
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