sounding off about lag

when i am in prim heavy places, lag is horrible, even on beefy machines such a mine, and on good bandwidth. and as citizens build more and more, it's not gonna improve.

so i spent some hours trying to tune prefs. i hit a biggie.

turn streaming sound and movies off. i think they're killing cache. i would think the code could be fixed to limit the amount of cache used to pre-buffer the streams. i would rather have skipping music and video than a totally lagged out machine.

now things are reasonable even in the primmiest blingiest stores on the grid (i am a shopping tag-along). so tell store owners that their shoppers will have a better shopping experience if they don't have in-store music.

so turn sound off an crank cache up to the max for which you have ram.

To my understanding, the streaming media has nothing to do with the SL data flow. The client accesses the stream directly from the site it's hosted on, not from Linden Lab, just like it would if you were listening to it on Winamp, for example, so how could it affect it?

I have had streaming audio continue to play perfectly when I was lagged so badly I couldn't even type. I think there's a flaw in your theory.

P2

correct, but irrelvant. the point is, whatever the souce, buffering it appears to be competing for cache.