script perf

what does script perf mean when you hit ctrl shift 1, and is the sim ok when the numbers are in the 100,000's or even the 1,000,000's?

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It means the sim isn't too busy and has a lot of time to run scripts. That number is the actual number of opcodes executed in the last second.

no that was rather accurate

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And there I thought Jumpy mistyped something and wanted to say script perv.....

It means that you have one or more scripts that are eating up huge amounts of resources. My home sim had a single script that took us from about 20,000 to near 700,000 ips. I called concierge and got a linden there in just a matter of minutes to locate the object and remove it.

I am surprised that you have not encountered serious problems with the sim with numbers that high. Most likely other scripts, such as vendors, are being slowed down by the rogue script.

IPS is a misleading number... it can be low because the sim is bogged down an unable to run very many instructions or it can be low because there are few, or no scripts running. If it is extremely high, it means that you have lots of scripts running, or a few scripts running in a very tight loop. In either case if you see above 50,000 you may have problems. I did a survey of random sims all over the grid, and found that almost all were below 50,000 ips.

i went to some of the popular places and the highest number i saw was 65,000 and this is when the sim i was origionally on was fluctuating between 140,000 and 170,000. Today it was way higher. Thanks a lot Innes. That really helps.

Quoted before Jumpy remembered to rewrite this into "Jumpy-speak"™

Do you mean, the script opcodes per second (or something like that?)

There are a lot of stats in that page, and I'm not sure which one you're talking about -- is there really one called "script perf"?

Anyway, the theory is that big numbers are good, the sim is cooking away nicely at your scripts. However, I read on this forum about a bug where the numbers would jump WAY up into the 100K's or higher, and sim behavior would go south. It's a sim bug, IIRC, and takes a sim reset to fix.

Try searching the forum for the actual term in the stats display. This was a fairly recent post, within the last month.

I believe typical healthy numbers are closer to the low 10K's, and lower if scripts are doing a lot of "hard stuff". This counter counts LSL internal opcodes, or instructions. Some ops are very simple and others are rather complex (take more simulator CPU cycles). So, you can't generalize too much about this number, but if it goes really low your scripts will be hosed!

As an example of opcodes, and adding a little guesswork based on other languages, a statement like

i = i + 1;

generally compiles into two opcodes, an add and an integer-store, with two arguments to each opcode. These are relatively simple & fast ones.

My guess is if you execute this:

integer i;
default() {
    state_entry() {
        for ( ; ; ) {
            i = 0;
        }
    }
}

and run a lot of copies of it, your IPS will jump way up.

Note that the sim won't let a single script hog the CPU -- it will let others get a word in edgewise -- so I suspect it takes a number of such scripts running to really shoot the numbers up.

Jumpman made an intelligent post asking a good question in a civil manner. I suggest we treat him accordingly this time.

...And maybe ol' Jump will even give you a discount if he ever offers a course in Ebonics-speak.

there is something called script perf and refers to a number measured in ips under simulator when you hit ctrl shift 1, that is the number i am referring too and what #'s fluctuationg around 140,000 to 190,000 mean. and these seem to be the normal range in this sim, but not in others i've gone too