[sldev] Scroll back buffer causes rendering pauses.

[Mike Monkowski]

Stickman wrote:
> That seems a bit much. Does that mean SL tries to keep that in RAM, or
> that it pages it to disk, or something else? I'd like to know how SL
> tries to handle this "maximum of 2GB" for the next time someone brings
> up chat lagging.

It's kept in memory, which may be paged to disk.  Perhaps it is set to 2 
GB because the truncation routine is too inefficient.

> We can edit our own .xml files, so no recompile is required to test
> this. Will the xml files be replaced on every new version, or are they
> persistent?

They will be replaced on every new version, however there is some 
mechanism for user overrides using the paths.xml file, but I've never 
tried it.

Mike