Using FPS when renting a sim

I have been looking out for a Homestead sim for a new project. I placed an ad in the Land wanted forum, and got lots of replies and went off to view some.

All the Homestead sims I went to visit were Class 5, and were completely empty. One thing I did notice though was the big difference in FPS numbers (View, Statistics Bar).

Some were 10FPS !!! (I wonder who's sharing the server with them!)

Some were 45FPS

Question: Is a snapshop FPS figure a good guide to less laggy sims, or is this exercise worthless?

Rock

Worthless I think

...because the other 15 sims in the box that you are sharing, and the other 3 on the core will vary.

I don't think it is a good way to determine if a sim is good or not.. Since all these sims bounce from host to host after crashes and restarts.. You could be on a good sim With 45 FPS and then all of a sudden a Extremely busy region was restarted and landed on the same host robbing the other regions of resources..Then your FPS drops and or the sim completely locks up forcing you to restart and hope you land on a decent host.. Chances are you will not land on a good host since they cram so many regions on a host.

Open Space regions and Homesteads are sharing a CPU . with the number of regions they put on these hosts they can not even begin to tell you your open space or homestead region is on a Single CPU


The promise of 1 CPU for a private region is long lost these days.
Even with a full region you are not guaranteed decent performance. only 1 CPU on shared memory.. and how do we know we don't have 4 other open space sims on this hardware..
Sim performance is decreased significantly over the course of this year.

I would think it's very useful information, especially if it's checked at various times during the day.



Is anyone else having problems getting pages back from this forum?

Yes i have had some serious problems with the forums this morning.. pages telling me the link is invalid and a lot of network timeouts

It's been virtually impossible for me to use for an hour or so, but it's sudenly come back now. I'm amazed that post of mine made it. I must have tried a dozen times to post - never got anything back. Anyway...

Given a choice of a 45 FPS sim and a 10 FPS one, I would always choose the 45, especially if it stayed around that through the day. At least it's good at the present time, which may not last - but it may.