Current Viewer (Mac) removing textures preemptively from cache

[Janet Rossini]

If I stand in NCI Kuula and turn around, so that all textures show up. and then face in one direction for five or six minutes, when I turn around, many of the textures behind me need to be reloaded. Andrew Linden says it sounds to him like the viewer is trolling through the cache tossing things out to be ready for new stuff.

The effect isn't deadly but it is disconcerting and interferes with the world experience, when you turn around and stuff is gone. In fact, if you leave the camera off yourself for a few minutes and then click back, you OUTFIT needs to be repainted. 

I have cache size maxed. I would have guessed that even Kuula couldn't fill it with new stuff.

Is there a way to get the viewer to tell me what it is doing with the cache? This didn't happen before, which makes me wonder if it ia a Mac feature or something recent.

Thanks!

[Oz Linden]

"Current Viewer" does not identify a viewer version specifically enough for us to be able to investigate this.

When identifying a viewer, use the full 4-part version number from the Help > About Second Life box (or better yet, copy that entire box)

 

 

[Ansariel Hiller]

This bug was introduced as part of MAINT-775 and I already fixed it in Firestorm: http://hg.phoenixviewer.com/phoenix-firestorm-lgpl/rev/1b4e80aeaba7

 

Original commit that introduced this behavior: http://hg.secondlife.com/viewer-release/commits/b343da8a6c0d4f7cc652f290770c6b9bb5e69d72

[Janet Rossini]

Hi Oz, sorry, I wasn't aware any of our esteemed Lindens would be watching, so was just asking a generic question. Here's my about, thanks!

Second Life 3.4.4 (268864) Jan 9 2013 15:49:53 (Second Life Release)
Release Notes

You are at 258878.0, 256672.0, 28.5 in Kuula located at sim9844.agni.lindenlab.com (216.82.45.178:13004)
Second Life Server 13.01.25.269523
Release Notes

CPU: Intel® Core i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz (3400 MHz)
Memory: 16384 MB
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.8.2 Darwin 12.2.1 Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.1: Thu Oct 18 12:13:47 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.20.9~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX OpenGL Engine

OpenGL Version: 2.1 NVIDIA-8.6.22

libcurl Version: libcurl/7.21.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8q zlib/1.2.5 c-ares/1.7.1
J2C Decoder Version: KDU v7.0
Audio Driver Version: FMOD version 3.750000
Qt Webkit Version: 4.7.1 (version number hard-coded)
Voice Server Version: Not Connected
Built with GCC version 40201
Packets Lost: 81/366173 (0.0%)

 

[Janet Rossini]

Thanks,  Ansariel, that sure sounds like it. I hope they'll fix it shortly.

Thanks again!