running two SL's at same time

it would be usefull for me to be able to run two SL's at the same time on one PC

often when i'm making a script i need to have a second person or avie to test it with
and it would be much easier if i could log in a second avie to do this with.


ive heard its possible but i dont know how or what LL's views are on this.

Assuming this is Windows, make a copy of the Second Life icon on your desktop.

Right-click on new icon, choose Properties
In the Target box type a space and -multiple at the end.

Using this icon, you can now open up multiple copies of the viewer.


But turn down your network connection speed for each so one doesn't hog all your bandwidth away from the other.

I think I've run up to 6 instances this way. Not very stable. My machine can handle three for an indefinite amount of time, but at 4 one is bound to crash/ping out in 8 hours or less. More instances and the time falls exponentially (not that I've done any actual tests, it just seems that way).

Using Virtual PC also works and is very stable. Well at least as stable as a normal SL instance.

6? what you running at 2fps at best? are the avies naked?

I think if you minimize a client window, it stops the rendering process which removes load from your graphics card.

So if you are looking to fill your nightclub with clones of yourself, you:

1. Start a client with the "-multiple" option
2. Set network bandwidth to maximum
3. Wait for nightclub and so forth to rez up and network traffic to drop
4. Set your clone to a dance move on the floor
5. Set maximum client bandwidth to 50 kbps just to keep it alive
6. Use Task Manager to set the process priority to "Low"
7. Minimize the window

Go back to step 1 and do it 6-10 more times.


It's amazing how responsive your computer gets when you set the SL client priority to "Below Normal" or "Low" -- and the client itself doesn't really perform any worse either. Odd, that.

If you have multiple CPUs, use the Task Manager to set the affinity for each client to a different CPU and spread out the load. So you could run five on one CPU, and five on the other...

Yeah, pretty much.
I never said it was usable.

And in my experience minimizing SL doesn't give all that much boost to system speed. It still eats memory and CPU, albeit not as much because of the less rendering.

Jesus where the heck do you log on, NASA testing facilities! What kinda PC are you running I would love to have that capacity. Thanks in advance for your reply

NASA facility? Hardly. My machine is custom built, though a tad instable (it's been getting better as I've been finding various driver issues--Windows sux).
~4GHz CPU
1 GB RAM
800 MHz FSB
Radeon 9200 SE