From: Helen V. J. <he...@cr...> - 2004-03-31 10:12:11
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we were using upstage for a rehearsal today & had a number of problems that seemed to come & go. sometimes but not all the time: - avatars stuck, ie can't move but can still speak (solved by hitting clear then coming back onstage, but often this would cause someone else's av to stick) - karla couldn't change her nickname - backdrops didn't always appear or change for everyone, sometimes you have to select it yourself in order to have it show up (it should be that whatever backdrop is selected shows up for everyone from when the stage has loaded - also that backdrops can be left on the stage for random visitors to see) are these things actual bugs, or indicative of the general instability of the environment? or is it that our server is not grunty enough? or something else? we have concluded that flash backdrops are really not a good idea at the moment as they slow things down & cover the text input box. karla doesn't have a white background for the text chat window (has never had it). can everyone remember to send me updates for the List of Things to Fix so that i can add to it & email to douglas. (douglas - it's not easy for me to surf at the moment so i won't try to put them into the sourceforge bug tracker at this stage, can you put them in once i send you the updated list?) douglas - we are rehearsing every wednesday at 9pm nz time for a couple of hours, so if you're uploading fixes it would be good to do it before then. the machinista gig is 8am monday 10 may nz time. h : ) -- ____________________________________________________________ helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst he...@cr... http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.avatarbodycollision.org http://www.writerfind.com/hjamieson.htm ____________________________________________________________ |
From: K <k...@ar...> - 2004-03-31 10:46:19
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Few amendments: sometimes I have white background for chat window, sometimes not, so I always make backdrop with white border just in case. sometimes - during the course of one session - i can change nickname - then that facilitiy disappears. Same for using dropping name - within one online session this facility comes and goes. Same for sound - intermittent. Also, if we get 'stuck' onstage, we exit screen but can't log back in without closing browser, reopening and relogging in. Refresh browswer never works (XP +IE6 setup). When you load a backdrop it NEVER appears on everyones screen - each pc has to select it. Karla At 11:10 31/03/2004, you wrote: >we were using upstage for a rehearsal today & had a number of problems >that seemed to come & go. sometimes but not all the time: >- avatars stuck, ie can't move but can still speak (solved by hitting >clear then coming back onstage, but often this would cause someone else's >av to stick) >- karla couldn't change her nickname >- backdrops didn't always appear or change for everyone, sometimes you >have to select it yourself in order to have it show up (it should be that >whatever backdrop is selected shows up for everyone from when the stage >has loaded - also that backdrops can be left on the stage for random >visitors to see) > >are these things actual bugs, or indicative of the general instability of >the environment? or is it that our server is not grunty enough? or >something else? > >we have concluded that flash backdrops are really not a good idea at the >moment as they slow things down & cover the text input box. > >karla doesn't have a white background for the text chat window (has never >had it). > >can everyone remember to send me updates for the List of Things to Fix so >that i can add to it & email to douglas. (douglas - it's not easy for me >to surf at the moment so i won't try to put them into the sourceforge bug >tracker at this stage, can you put them in once i send you the updated list?) > >douglas - we are rehearsing every wednesday at 9pm nz time for a couple of >hours, so if you're uploading fixes it would be good to do it before then. >the machinista gig is 8am monday 10 may nz time. > >h : ) >-- >____________________________________________________________ > >helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst >he...@cr... >http://www.creative-catalyst.com >http://www.avatarbodycollision.org >http://www.writerfind.com/hjamieson.htm >____________________________________________________________ > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials >Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of >GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system >administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click >_______________________________________________ >Upstage-list mailing list >Ups...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/upstage-list |
From: Douglas B. <do...@pa...> - 2004-04-05 15:26:22
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Helen Varley Jamieson wrote: > are these things actual bugs, or indicative of the general instability > of the environment? or is it that our server is not grunty enough? or > something else? something else I think: the server was overloaded because of a bug in mbrola (the speech engine). When you ask an avatar to say "eeeeeeeee- eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee", mbrola can get stuck and eat up the CPU. I stupidly didn't look for this until today, when I found there were two instances of mbrola saying "eee..." that had been running out of control since March 24. In the normal run of thing the server is not at all overloaded, and fairly stable - it has been running continuously for 264 days, including the last two weeks at 100% CPU usage. Anyway, I'll try putting a timeout on the speech subprocesses. If it hasn't finished in 10 seconds or so, it will be killed. Many of our bugs are like this -- imported from other software, that we can best deal with by isolating. douglas |
From: Douglas B. <do...@pa...> - 2004-04-06 01:40:45
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Helen Varley Jamieson wrote: > - karla couldn't change her nickname [...] > karla doesn't have a white background for the text chat window (has > never had it). If this was on the 8082 server, it's because the swf client there was out of date. Otherwise it is a mystery, or perhaps a cached copy. douglas |