-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 With so many machines at their disposal, why things don't work in a more distributed way? I can't understand why there is so much centralized stuff.
On 16/4/2010 13:20, Dale Glass wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 04:09:19PM +0200, Lance Corrimal wrote: >> - 48 hours after the server code is out in the open, the 25 groups limit has >> been lifted, AND the whole IM/group chat subsystem has been migrated to XMPP >> (including voice via XMPP); another day and there's the possibility to >> connect >> to jabber.sl.net with any xmpp client, AND talk to friends at any jabber >> service. > Very likely, but it doesn't necessarily work for SL. > > IIRC, the main issue with the group limit and IM is scaling. There can be 70K > people online. Suppose you bump the groups limit to 100, and those 70K people > end up belonging to 50 groups on average. Now you've double IM load, and if > you remember the days where most group chat sessions failed, it's probably a > quite heavy loaded system. > > Jabber would have the same issue: how to handle 70K people, many with multiple > conversations and conferences. A small jabber server is easy, but supporting > 70K logged in accounts is a serious undertaking. > > Of course none of this would be an issue for a third party grid with 50 > concurrent users. > >> >> - 72 hours after the server code is out in the open, SVC-472 is fixed > Region crossing is complicated in SL. OpenSim doesn't seem to do a lot better. > > If you'd be willing to improve it there, I'm sure many people would love it. > > > But I agree, cool things could happen as a result :-) > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvIzecACgkQ8ZFfSrFHsmX8KgCfQ2Jt8ZmbKPxj+sdaH/2PXkd3 WxAAnAh/2iSUHc99BrA3UlcEvY9RA7Dw =yXOz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
