sims, connections, clients, and lag

Hello
I've noticed that sim performance tends to degrade quite a lot after you get 20 people on the sim. I've noticed it degrades greatly after about 30 people get on the sim. I know 30 is the default maximum for clients, though, so I'm assuming that sims simply aren't built to handle more than 30 clients at once.
Is this true?
Does this maximum client count include child clients?
If it does, does this mean that potentially, a large group of people in the parcel next to your sim can drop your sim avatar limit down such that nobody can use your sim?


I own a sim and I'm considering getting another sim attached to the sim I have. Unfortunately, my existing sim is very high traffic (we have one parcel ranging from 12 to 18k traffic, and several other parcels with very high traffic too).... and I wonder, would placing them next to each other cause a lot of lag?

I realise that sims are linked up a lot on the mainland, and that it does not cause a lot of lag. On the other hand, my sim has higher traffic than most mainland sims, so whatever effect there is is more pronounced.

Do child agents cause 100% as much lag as main agents, on average? If not, what fraction do they cause? Is it high, like 80%, or low, like 20%? I'd greatly appreciate knowing.

Thank you

Hello

30 isn't the default maximum, 40 is. Some mainland regions still have 30 so if you have a list... email it to me (torley@lindenlab.com) and I'll up them for consistency. Performance gains over time have allowed us to scale, and this is a trend which continues. The Estate Owner or Manager of a private island can set even higher numbers.

No, it doesn't include child agents (avatars). The count of those are actually dependent on their draw distance--specifically, who's looking into the region you're in. Performance-wise in actual practice, child agents have minimal load. I've been in situations where 50+ agents were in a region and I was in an adjacent region with a few other folks, and simulated performance, clearly indicated via the Statistics Bar was just peachy. However, as expected, your client-side performance will suffer greatly if you're just over the border and looking at many avatars on that other region. So, several factors to take into consideration. Trust how it feels.

You're welcome