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1.21
Elfin Halfpint
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Join date: 25 Nov 2007
Posts: 2
09-01-2008 13:14
Crashes more then any of them so far
Shyan Graves
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Join date: 10 Feb 2007
Posts: 52
09-02-2008 02:38
Nope! Not for me! :) Had one that was worst in the past :)
But if you are looking on what they changed/fixed/added and how many stuff they removed from the build (filesize dropped from ~35 MB to ~21MB) I would have been suprised if it would have been stable at all... lol...

And then they had some special changes in this release (see also. http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Release_Candidate/1.21

From: someone

Temporary Changes:

We have enabled some special debugging checks during the Release Candidate cycle. These have a short term effect of causing the viewer to crash more when something goes wrong, but it assists Linden Lab to improve stability by identifying those failure cases. We appreciate that you send us crash reports that occur!

These extra checks WILL be removed in a later iteration of the Release Candidate. But these can be turned off by a Resident at any time:
  1. Turned on Thread monitoring (Watchdog) during the Release Candidate cycle
    1. Thread monitor will detect when the application is frozen for a period greater than 20 seconds and possibly force a crash with detailed logs
    2. Thread monitor can be disabled by choosing to never report crashes, or with a command line setting "--set WatchdogEnabled 0"
    3. The threshold timing of the thread monitor is set in the file \SecondLifeReleaseCandidate\app_settings\settings.xml under the key "MainloopTimeoutDefault"


So I expected the crash rate to be higher than normal!

Regards,
Shyan
Jack Abraham
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Join date: 11 Apr 2008
Posts: 113
09-02-2008 05:37
On my MacBook Pro, I find 1.21 RC0 markedly superior to any viewer so far in terms of performance and stability. I'm archiving it in case future RCs backslide.
Tegg Bode
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Join date: 12 Jan 2007
Posts: 5,707
09-02-2008 05:54
From: Elfin Halfpint
Crashes more then any of them so far

1.12 back in Nov2006 was the worst I think.
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Meade Paravane
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09-02-2008 07:45
From: Tegg Bode
1.12 back in Nov2006 was the worst I think.

That one was pretty bad, wasn't it? 1.21 is driving me nuts but I haven't tossed it and gone back to 1.20. Yet.

I've heard lots of people unhappy with the watchdog timer thing. Not sure I understand that - it only kicks in when SL has been frozen for over 20 seconds. I'd rather they just left that on and worked on the FPS and crashes that don't lock up SL first..
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SlimD Dannunzio
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Join date: 20 Feb 2006
Posts: 10
RC cycle
09-02-2008 17:03
so how long is it till we get viewer or client that doesn't have the debug stuff turned on, and there fore crashes less...
Ramzi Linden
Linden Lab Employee
Join date: 8 Jun 2004
Posts: 107
09-04-2008 18:15
We plan on turning off the debug "Thread monitoring" by RC2 or RC3. The data we collect in the meantime is what helps us make this a more stable viewer! Thanks in advance for crashing it once or twice-- you've help create the trail to the weak points in the viewer code.

From: SlimD Dannunzio
so how long is it till we get viewer or client that doesn't have the debug stuff turned on, and there fore crashes less...