I've tried a seach but these terms pull up nothing but classified.
I'm on a class 4 sim, renting.. I'm considering expanding on the sim, but am wondering if I should go for a class 5 instead. I run a jazz bar and two art galleries, and no heavy scripting.. I haven't seen much lag or difference between my place and others, but I want to be sure before I take over more land.
Can any one help explain this server difference?
thanks!
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Davin Romano
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05-13-2008 13:39
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Meade Paravane
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05-13-2008 13:49
The actual server hardware was talked about in the blog, waaaay-back-when. See: http://blog.secondlife.com/2006/10/16/looking-forward-to-class-5/ .
... So, here’s what’s different under the hood: we’ve been all-AMD for years, but are moving from the Opteron 270 to the Intel Xeon 5148 - a low-power version of Intel’s new Core 2 Duo based server CPUs. This gives us better performance for fewer watts, while supporting our standard 64-bit OS image. We’ve also doubled the RAM per machine from 2GB to 4GB and moved to a faster SATA disk, which usually won’t make much of a difference, but should reduce the stalls sometimes seen by heavy regions during autosaves. Finally, there are fewer, bigger system fans, and power supply efficiency goes from 67% to 84%; power usage while running the sim process is about 175 watts, vs. 230 for a Class 4. ... I think a lot of differences we notice as residents is on regions that have lots of scripts and I suspect the class 5 hardware having twice the memory as a class 4 has something to do with that. _____________________
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Davin Romano
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05-13-2008 14:54
ok thanks, we don't run any heavy scripts, and it doesn't appear that the neighbors do either.. perhaps we can slide with this.. I'm just always yearning for the best.
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