Duh..oh.oh.oh.. piiiiiiing.. <1fps?

I am wondering if this is occuring to anyone else or is it indicative of something on my end/my traceroute to SL...

It seems that roughly 75% of the time I tp into Ahern enroute Morris, my ping reaches some unGodly number starting in the mid-2000s and heading skyward from there. Coincidentally, perhaps because of that, my client-side fps drops below 2 and routinely below 1.2 and even 1.

This may occur even when the sim fps is reporting 1000 plus.

My only routine attachments are an unscripted dagger in a hand and perhaps a pair of unscripted horns on my head ... but I don't see either of these as anything that could really affect anything and I mention it only because of the "teleport in" aspect of this little story. Then again, I get similar results/observations at times even without those attachments so perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned them at all.

I'd bug report this but I am not sure if it is bug-related or just Net/connection crap.

Thoughts?

The Lindens recently revealed that networking and rendering are on the same processing thread.

What's happening is that your slow framerate is increasing your ping time. The client can't respond to pings (or record ping responses) while it's in the middle of drawing a frame, so if you're getting only one frame a second, you're going to get 1000ms ping times.

This happens to me all the time. It's pretty annoying. I'll be getting about 20FPS flying into Ahern, and then all of a sudden it will just drop instantly to maybe one frame every 2-3 seconds. Ping Sim and Ping User can go up to around 15,000 milliseconds (15 seconds!) when this happens.

Here is a snapshot of how SL looks normally and under low-FPS conditions, with the frame console open so that you can see what part of the process is killing it.