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Mike Joyce on 07.15.2010
V,
As I have said before, your work is a great inspiration to me.
I would love to learn more about how you have set up your sim.
I am currently working on a Standalone sim, using Diva Distribution and running it on a USB flash drive (for portability). My desire is have it basically private for my use and open it up using the Hypergrid when I want visitors. This is still a work in progress and my Hypergrid access is vaguely working. My goal is to create several Standalone Sims and purpose each one for different reasons. Perhaps have one as a Formal meeting sim, another as an experimental sandbox sim or others as various “themed” sims. I know I could accomplish something like this via OAR files, but swapping USB flash drives appeals to my sense of simplicity. I also have just enough knowledge to know I don’t really know very much.
Do you have any insights as to how far you can push the amounts of prims on the sim? How much disc space, ram etc have your required?
I look forward to your blog every day. Your discussions are very illuminating.
All the Best
Mike
V on 07.15.2010
Wow, that went fast. Thanks for the comment, Mike. I’ll think about writing some tutorial on how to set up your standalone; there are just so many different configuration options that it’s very difficult to cover them all. For one, I’m on a Mac, which might make things useless for PC users, and I’m using mysql, which might not be useful for anyone using SQLite, which comes as standard with the opensim installation. Maybe it’s best I’ll just give an insight into my personal configuration. Again, thanks for the input.
(Edit: To give a short answer to your questions: I’m running a standalone with 21 regions on my computer, which is a Power Mac Dual Quad 2.8 GHz with 8 GB of RAM. All in all I’m probably using around 3.000 prims and 100 scripts (just simple ones like door scripts and such). From what I’ve seen, OpenSim allocates memory automatically, so after startup and with just me on the sim it uses about 170 MB of ram and ca. 1 GB of disk space for the database. I’ve got it hypergrid enabled and set up several hypergrid locations as permanents on the map, for easy access.)
(Edit edit: If you want to create several standalones for different purposes, it’s not sufficient to have several OpenSim installations; you will also need to have a different database for each, if they’re supposed to be completely independent. If you just want to have different configuration options, you can easily create a different MyWorld.ini file for each and just use the one you currently need by putting it into the config-include folder. If you don’t even want to have different settings, but just different places for different purposes, you can create several regions and put them on coordinates that are a little distant from each other (about 100 coordinates on the map or so) and create them accordingly. Personally, I’d prefer the last approach, as it makes for the least amount of frustration and complication.)