Viewer to Region Ping Times
Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 3:41 pm
Good Day folks,
I just popped in to check out Ener Hax' tireless efforts on Hax Nuit and hit an odd bit of a snag.
I'm not sure that this is a Kitely Issue as such or even an OpenSim issue (unless the Kitely version has a quirk) but possibly a cloud hosting issue, possible tweaking needed ? or something else... but here is the info.
All my viewers are set as follows: 1000 kbps max network speed. Graphic running in Ultra with Ambient Occlusion & Depth of Field are OFF. Particles @ 2048, otherwise fully maxed. Note that Anistropic Filtering is OFF as well.
I first logged in with Zen Viewer (latest) but the movement was extremely choppy. I popped up the stats panel and was surprised to see "Sim Ping times" exceeding 500ms, all the way up to 900ms resulting in a frame rate of < 2.0fps. In the "Legacy Grid" Ping Sim times 70ms -> 150ms with FPS averaging 18-27 fps depending on activity. In OSgrid LBSA Plaza ping times averaging 80ms and 20-25fps consistently.
Next I tried with Cool VL Viewer (Latest). Slightly choppy but the sim ping times were floating between 60ms to 180ms and the FPS was hitting up to 35 depending on view. This was certainly better. In the "Legacy Grid" Ping Sim times 90ms -> 200ms with FPS averaging 10-25 fps depending on activity.
Next, I installed the latest FireStorm for OpenSim and adjusted my setting according to my normal defaults. Ping times in-world were reaching 600ms at times but mostly stayed below 250ms. The frame rates were obviously affected and bouncing between 2fps (@ high ping time) to 19/20 fps on fast ping times. In the "Legacy Grid" Ping Sim times 90ms -> 150ms with FPS averaging 15-32 fps depending on activity.
OpenSim Note:
I also run Stand Alones & Servers with OpenSim and ping times vary tremendously but I have not seen ping times in excess of 250ms with the exception of the initial login load for a moment only. Only other times I have noted excessive Ping Times is when attempting to login to a grid / region which is @ distance in RL with many hops, such as Eastern EU from my location. One thing that will 100% affect Sim Ping times is that if Anistropic Filtering is turned on, which will double the ping times and half the FPS rates. Comparing to other OpenSim installations (OSgrid Plaza's for example as they are dedi servers in North America) and the ping times are also very respectable, if not on a 'foreign (many hops away)' region.
As for my Physical Location, it's Ontario Canada and fairly close (as the crow flies) to the Amazon Server's. So distance (# of hops) is actually quite minimal and not a cause.
System Specs from the system I used for testing:
* All Drivers are fully up to date as of this date.
CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor (3511.96 MHz)
Memory: 16302 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 8 64-bit (Build 9200)
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 550 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
Have a Terrific Day !
WhiteStar
I just popped in to check out Ener Hax' tireless efforts on Hax Nuit and hit an odd bit of a snag.
I'm not sure that this is a Kitely Issue as such or even an OpenSim issue (unless the Kitely version has a quirk) but possibly a cloud hosting issue, possible tweaking needed ? or something else... but here is the info.
All my viewers are set as follows: 1000 kbps max network speed. Graphic running in Ultra with Ambient Occlusion & Depth of Field are OFF. Particles @ 2048, otherwise fully maxed. Note that Anistropic Filtering is OFF as well.
I first logged in with Zen Viewer (latest) but the movement was extremely choppy. I popped up the stats panel and was surprised to see "Sim Ping times" exceeding 500ms, all the way up to 900ms resulting in a frame rate of < 2.0fps. In the "Legacy Grid" Ping Sim times 70ms -> 150ms with FPS averaging 18-27 fps depending on activity. In OSgrid LBSA Plaza ping times averaging 80ms and 20-25fps consistently.
Next I tried with Cool VL Viewer (Latest). Slightly choppy but the sim ping times were floating between 60ms to 180ms and the FPS was hitting up to 35 depending on view. This was certainly better. In the "Legacy Grid" Ping Sim times 90ms -> 200ms with FPS averaging 10-25 fps depending on activity.
Next, I installed the latest FireStorm for OpenSim and adjusted my setting according to my normal defaults. Ping times in-world were reaching 600ms at times but mostly stayed below 250ms. The frame rates were obviously affected and bouncing between 2fps (@ high ping time) to 19/20 fps on fast ping times. In the "Legacy Grid" Ping Sim times 90ms -> 150ms with FPS averaging 15-32 fps depending on activity.
OpenSim Note:
I also run Stand Alones & Servers with OpenSim and ping times vary tremendously but I have not seen ping times in excess of 250ms with the exception of the initial login load for a moment only. Only other times I have noted excessive Ping Times is when attempting to login to a grid / region which is @ distance in RL with many hops, such as Eastern EU from my location. One thing that will 100% affect Sim Ping times is that if Anistropic Filtering is turned on, which will double the ping times and half the FPS rates. Comparing to other OpenSim installations (OSgrid Plaza's for example as they are dedi servers in North America) and the ping times are also very respectable, if not on a 'foreign (many hops away)' region.
As for my Physical Location, it's Ontario Canada and fairly close (as the crow flies) to the Amazon Server's. So distance (# of hops) is actually quite minimal and not a cause.
System Specs from the system I used for testing:
* All Drivers are fully up to date as of this date.
CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor (3511.96 MHz)
Memory: 16302 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 8 64-bit (Build 9200)
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 550 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
Have a Terrific Day !
WhiteStar