any link(s) to the relevant source? + poppy
Rob Lanphier wrote: > Hi folks, > > We're trying to decide just how important SNOW-2 is: > http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SNOW-2 > > This is our tracking issue for the vague crash reports we have involving > curl. We're not getting good stack traces or anything like that, and > people have generally not been complaining about this particular problem. > > However, based on some evidence that Merov noticed and is digging into > now, it would seem that the curl crashers seem to happen in the map code > (because secondlife.log indicates to be accessing S3 at the time of the > crash). Furthermore, the problem generally might be linked to improper > use of curl in the viewer (e.g. overusing the same curl handle). This > might be a case where gentle use of the map works like a charm, but > using the map while chatting and teleporting and using the inworld web > browser may be another story altogether. > > So, we'd like you to help by hammering on this issue, and reporting your > results (either positive or negative) in SNOW-2. In particular, some > things to try: > 1. Lots of things that would use HTTP simultaneously (e.g moving around > in the map, then quickly teleporting before the map loads in all of the way) > 2. Really use the map. Zoom out, zoom in, try to find regions with > missing textures > 3. grep the code yourself for libcurl usage, and figure out other ways > of torturing that code. > > Let's figure out if we need to figure this problem out before declaring > this "Snowglobe 1.0". > > Thanks! > Rob > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
