We've encountered problems with textures never fully downloading and
objects not moving or being deleted (from the client's point of view)
even when the bandwidth settings on the client have been set very
low. This can happen over reasonably lossy links (eg you're on the
other side of the world from the server) as the server retries 3 times
and then gives up.
Whilst its possible to set ReliableIsImportant, this forces the server
to keep retrying no matter what which potentially could lead to
problems. This patch allows for the setting of MaxReliableResends
explicitly (is set to 3 normally) in OpenSim.ini so if you know you
will have clients connecting with poor connections you can set it a
bit higher (10-15 works quite well even for very poor connections).
This may break a lot of things, but it needs to go in. It was tested in standalone and the UCI grid, but it needs a lot more testing.
Known problems:
* HG asset transfers are borked for now
* missing texture is missing
* 3 unit tests commented out for now
* User interface is ... primitive at best right now.
* Loads bans from bans.txt and region ban DB on startup, bans.txt is in the format of one per line. The following explains how they are read;
DNS bans are in the form "somewhere.com" will block ANY matching domain (including "betasomewhere.com", "beta.somewhere.com", "somewhere.com.beta") - make sure to be reasonably specific in DNS bans.
IP address bans match on first characters, so, "127.0.0.1" will ban only that address, "127.0.1" will ban "127.0.10.0" but "127.0.1." will ban only the "127.0.1.*" network
Don't allow packets to be resent before they have actually been sent for the
first time. Switch from serializing a packet to get it's length to the LibOMV
provided Length property. Fix resend timing. Fix the use of dangling references
to Acked packets. Fix the packet handler to play nice with the packet pool.
Fix the packet pool. Add data block recycling to the packet pool. Packet pool
is now ENABLED by default. Add config option to disable packet and data block
reuse. Add ObjectUpdate and ImprovedTerseObjectUpdate to the packets being
recycled.
to recycley data blocs within a packet. Recycle the ObjectUpdate* data
blocks. Speeds up loading even more.
This may mean that the packet pool is now viable.
Following feedback from 0003440, i've made some changes to the new texture pipeline to optimise
performance. The changes are:
- Fixed a math issue where a small percentage of images with a certain size (on the packet boundary) would not have their final data delivered. This issue has been present since pre- 0003440
- It was suggested that a discardlevel of -1 and a prioriy of 0 meant to abandon the transfer, this is incorrect and caused some textures to clog.
- The texture throttle blocking queue is now only filled in relation to the actual throttle amount.. i.e, on a connection throttled to 300k, only twenty packets will be placed in the queue at a time, on a larger connection it will be much more. This is to balance responsiveness to requests and speed, and to minimise wasted packets.
- The engine now keeps track of the number of pending textures, and the stack will not be walked if there's no textures pending, saving CPU. Textures are only considered "pending" when they've already been decoded.
- As part of the above, some textures may receive twice as much data per cycle if the number of pending textures is below the cycle threshold, this should prevent loading from slowing down when there are fewer textures in the queue.
