Subject: LambdaMOO lag

From: Jay Scott <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1992 18:30:49 -0700

The server has been rewritten, and now it is much faster.
When LambdaMOO switched to the new server, lag went way down.
But now lag has climbed again and it is as bad as it ever was.
Yesterday the lag meter sampled one lag that was over ten minutes.

Way back when, Pavel said that the big cause of server lag
on LambdaMOO was background tasks. If this is still true,
then people must be running more background tasks than they
they used to, or more expensive ones.

Is that true? Did people say 'Hey, this is much better, I can
afford some more spam for the fridge now'? Or is Pavel just
using his machine more heavily? :-)

	Curious Frand
	[email-masked]

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From: Pavel Curtis <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1992 19:55:49 -0700

> Date:	Tue, 20 Oct 1992 18:30:49 -0700
> From:	Jay Scott <[email-masked]>
> 

I have, in fact, been using my machine somewhat more heavily at times, but I
think that the real cause of the lag is increased usage of background tasks.  I
am likely to be given a second workstation pretty soon, so that I can dedicate
`lambda' to running the MOO.  This will probably help the lag a little and my
sanity a lot... :-)

	Pavel/Haakon