[sldev] SLDev Digest, Vol 30, Issue 47

[Nexii Malthus]

Yes, please start publishing these global stats, ESPECIALLY for custom
channels, let the client developers see their own crash rates, we could
REALLY need that.

- Nexii Malthus

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Maggie Leber (sl: Maggie Darwin) <
maggie at matrisync.com> wrote:

>  On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) <q at lindenlab.com>
>
> > The bugs that were found and fixed in the next 3 RCs were minimal. On
> > a global statistics level, the crash rates are lower than they've ever
> > been, even when you include crashes caused by specific video cards.
> Well, we can only go by our own crash rates and word-of-mouth since we
> don't get to see the global stats. Our local crash rates here are still what
> I would call "awful", and clearly worse on 1.23 than 1.22, with two users
> making heavy use of hardware selected and purchased specifically on the
> basis of the published requirements for SLV.
>
> The crashes are almost always due --as far as I can see from the
> information available-- to virtual memory exhaustion.
>
> Perhaps I have "a specific video card". If so, I think the "specific video
> card manufacturer"  would be interested in hearing about a claim that their
> card is crashing your app...I'd be interested in hearing the details of the
> bugs you filed with them, assuming it's not constrained by an NDA.. (The
> last time I dealt with a severe SLV bug that was repeatedly and strenuously
> attributed to the video card driver, it turned out to be the result of a
> trivial code defect in SLV, found by a third party developer).
>
> I do hope your crash rate is calculated per session hour. Because if it's a
> raw number of crashes per day or even per session, I do know that the uptake
> of 1.23 in our operation was limited by the fact that the thing kept leaking
> up and falling over, and if others were affected the same way then a raw
> crash rate per day would be badly distorted.
>
> Any chance you'll start publishing the viewer crash stats?
>
>  Maggie Darwin
>
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