[sldev] Re: Firstlook Voice... more memory leak ?

[Garth FairChang]

Hi

How do we get voice enabled on our sims?

We have a private estate and would love to get this going for our residents.

Garth FairChang

> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:48:30 +0200
> From: "Laurent Laborde" <kerdezixe at gmail.com>
> Subject: [sldev] Firstlook Voice... more memory leak ?
> To: sldev at lists.secondlife.com
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> Hi,
>
> when i run Secondlife on my PC (because of the 20" screen against my
> 15" macbook pro) i use a software named "O&O Clever cache". This
> software have a very nice memory usage monitor.
>
> Since i upgraded my PC with 3GB of RAM, i noticed a lot of performance
> improvment and less crash. I guess that the overhead of swapping cause
> a race condition, or some kind of memory inconsistency... and crash.
>
> With firstlook i noticed that SecondLife can use up to 2GB of memory,
> that never happened with the "regular client"... the memory usage is
> growing over time... 'til crash.
>
> I hate to say that, because i want voice, but : i think it should be
> fixed before the "official" release of voicechat... swapping is the
> cause of a MAJOR slowdown and most people have 1GB or less of RAM (and
> fragmented disk and bad virtual memory managment and ...).
>
> We said that voice won't generate more lag, and i believe this is
> true. But this memory leak will generate an insane lag and crash. It
> won't take more than a second for people to say "Voice = lag" and
> "Linden Lab = Liar", "Fix teh bugz instead of adding features".
>
> I have voice chat enabled on my 3 major french sims, with a traffic of
> 100.000 visitor per month.
> We like voice, but most people switch back to the regular client.
> Myself, i don't use FirstLook unless i planned to use voice. More
> crash, FPS drop, ...
>
> I wish i could help to find the memory leak, and analyze the
> crashdump, ... but i don't know how.
>
> -- 
> kerunix Flan
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