I ran into something simular while I had the plugins linked with libcwd (which writes to stdout). The result is that the system gets confused and the whole thing simply hangs at 100% cpu usage, without errors or recovery.
So, my advise (to the developer investigating this) would be to add better error detection to what is sent/received over the pipes, and if anything out of the ordinary happens, don't "hang" but report it as an error. On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:11:34AM +0000, Opensource Obscure wrote: > Hello everybody, > I'm sorry I couldn't do more testing recently; > I'm on Linux Ubuntu 9.04, where I usually get good > performances with the stable official viewer. > > I tried yesterday Snoglobe RC-2 and after some time > client performances were seriously degraded (<10FPS), > apparently because of media plugins taking lots of CPU. > > I already saw the same thing a few weeks ago, using > the first releases using Media Plugins. I'm not > sure I'm seeing an improvement with regard to this, > on my system at least. > > I have 4 or 5 plugins processes taking 10-15% > CPU each one: system load goes until 5-6-7, > while it's usually at 1. > The very bad detail about this is that that > media were disabled at all. > > I apologize again I didn't more testing, I should > have raised this before. It appears to be a > critical issue, at least in my case. I guess > I couldn't use Snowglobe on a daily basis anymore > until this problem won't be solved. > > my hardware system specs (these data are from > some time ago, but they should be the same): > CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6420 @ 2.13GHz > Memory: 3292 MB > OS Version: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:24:39 UTC 2009 > i686 > Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation > Graphics Card: GeForce 9600 GT/PCI/SSE2 > OpenGL Version: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 173.14.12 > > bye > opensource obscure > > visit, copy & reuse my LSL HTTP-IN interactive installation: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdjwFHCITbE > https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Opensource_Obscure/Chromutate > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges -- Carlo Wood <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
