[sldev] Script/Parcel/Memory Limits

[Stickman]

Ping.

The comfort or early warning I expect is that we're going to get
better tools to see behind the scenes on scripts before the limits
actually show up. My fear is that it's going to be right when midterms
crop up and have a two week window to rewrite every script I've ever
written.

Can any Lindens on this project provide any information, or point us
to a magical page on the wiki that explains this? Or, at the very
least, give us a rough timetable so we know about what time is
appropriate to begin our panicked search for information?

Thanks much!

Stickman

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Ziggy Puff <ziggy at planetziggy.com> wrote:
> I was about to post a question on this as well - my wife heard about that
> blog post (it's spreading pretty quickly among content creators, I think)
> and so I took a look. I found some good info in 3 or 4 of Babbage Linden's
> office hour chat logs. More details on the exact algorithms would be very
> helpful. Some questions I had after going through the material I could find:
>
> * Is each script 'charged' 16K/64K, or just what it's using? Is the check
> made on rez / parcel change, or periodically? Maybe this is a meaningless
> question, but I thought Mono scripts could scale their memory footprint up
> and down, in which case a script could have a small footprint when it's
> rezzed.
>
> * Avatar / attachment pool vs. parcel pool - if an av's pool runs out, does
> an attachment try to take memory from the parcel pool?
>
> * The GUI support for reporting script memory usage - will it show the
> footprint of individual objects, like the 'Top Scripts' window? How about
> individual attachments? I imagine the last object that would go over the
> threshold will be the one that's not allowed to rez, but that probably won't
> be the least efficiently scripted item the person is wearing.
>
> Ziggy
>
> Stickman wrote:
>>
>> I don't know what the official name is, but it's either Parcel Limits,
>> Script Limits, or Memory Limits.
>>
>> It's been a while since I've heard any official word about it. Last I
>> did hear, LL was gathering statistics and didn't know exactly how they
>> were going to implement it, let alone what the limits would be.
>>
>> Has LL made any decisions, and would they be willing to share them?
>> More minds on the issue can spot any holes or problems that could
>> arise, and there's still some rumbling panic among the masses that
>> can't be confirmed or quelled since we don't know how it'll work.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Stickman
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