[sldev] Snowglobe Pauses

[Rob Lanphier]

On 06/09/2009 06:58 AM, Matt White wrote:
> Good Morning!
>
> I've been trying to use Snowglobe as my primary viewer for a while,
> but the last few builds have had major issues with the viewer pausing
> completely; the UI freezes and rendering stops. (But I can still hear
> wind sounds in the background.) Sometimes the viewer will recover on
> its own, but most of the time I end up having to kill the process to
> regain control of my system.
>
> I'm running Vista64 with an nVidia GTX260 with the latest drivers. The
> deferred pipeline is not on.
>
> Are there any tricks that I should know on how to get the system to
> either force a crash (so a crash dump can be sent back) or to just
> gather information that could be helpful on how and why this is
> happening?
>   

Hi Matt,

Can you pinpoint when it was that the problems started happening? In
particular, look through this list here:
http://svn.secondlife.com/trac/linden/log/projects/2009/http-texture

...and then try downloading an earlier corresponding to something
earlier than a fishy looking change here:
https://lists.secondlife.com/pipermail/sldev-commits/2009-May/subject.html#2582
https://lists.secondlife.com/pipermail/sldev-commits/2009-June/subject.html#2728

(look for the mails with "Successful Build for ...")

I'm going to guess that r2324 is the earliest rev worth testing, as
before that we had a lot of OpenJPEG crashes that would probably mask
any problems that you're having now. Just knowing if 2324 doesn't
exhibit this problem would provide us with a lot of information:
http://secondlife.com/developers/opensource/downloads/2009/http-texture/2324/Second_Life_1-23-2-2324_OSS_Setup.exe

Of course, the suggestion to build your own will also be helpful, so
don't let me stop you from doing that. This is just an alternative that
you can try if you can't fully invest in getting a build going.

Rob