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Low Prim Sims

Katier Reitveld
M2 News Manager
Join date: 13 Sep 2005
Posts: 412
07-25-2006 10:14
Are these suitable for a small group of friends who want to setup a small community village with minimal scripts, no vendors, low traffic for them to relax and socialise in.

Building a small number of homes and an area to occasionally party in, when partying, the use of some dance pose balls?
Kelly Linden
Linden Developer
Join date: 29 Mar 2004
Posts: 896
07-25-2006 11:44
Not really.

Technical details:
Most regions in SL are running on a dedicated CPU. All resident owned sims (with the exception of 'low prim' sims) fall in this category. Our current servers are 4 CPUs (2 dual-core CPUs), with 2gigs of RAM - 512 for each CPU.

Low Prim sim are what we call 4:1. We run 4 of them on a single CPU (hence why you get 4 for the same price as 1 regular). What this means is that each low prim region besides fighting for CPU time (which means performance is a little lower than 1/4) only gets 128MB of memory. They can go past this but that causes Bad Things - stuff that would normally be in memory must be saved to disk and read from disk when needed (swapping). This reduces performance greatly.

The end result is that these sims really are only good for minimal content and not a lot of resident or script activity.
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