SmartThreadPool code comes from http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/7933/Smart-Thread-Pool
This version implements thread abort (via WorkItem.Cancel(true)), threadpool naming, max thread stack, etc. so we no longer need to manually patch those.
However, two changes have been made to stock 2.2.3.
Major change: WorkItem.Cancel(bool abortExecution) in our version does not succeed if the work item was in progress and thread abort was not specified.
This is to match previous behaviour where we handle co-operative termination via another mechanism rather than checking WorkItem.IsCanceled.
Minor change: Did not add STP's StopWatch implementation as this is only used WinCE and Silverlight and causes a build clash with System.Diagnostics.StopWatch
The reason for updating is to see if this improves http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=6557 and http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=6586
This is mostly Bluewall's work but I am also bumping the general version number
OpenSimulator 0.7.5 remains in the release candidate stage.
I'm doing this because master is significantly adding things that will not be in 0.7.5
This update should not cause issues with existing external binary DLLs because our DLLs do not have strong names
and so the exact version match requirement is not in force.
* Only initialize Util's SmartThreadPool if it is actually being used
* No longer initializing Util's SmartThreadPool with a custom max stack size. From MSDN: "Avoid using this constructor overload. The default stack size used by the Thread(ThreadStart) constructor overload is the recommended stack size for threads."
* This is a HUGE OMG update and will definitely have unknown side effects.. so this is really only for the strong hearted at this point. Regular people should let the dust settle.
* This has been tested to work with most basic functions. However.. make sure you back up 'everything' before using this. It's that big!
* Essentially we're back at square 1 in the testing phase.. so lets identify things that broke.
Currently module loading is done ad-hoc. I propose creating a simple
loader class that leverages Mono.Addins (and perhaps the new .NET
addins when they become available in mono). Attached is a basic
patch for review that compiles into HEAD, but doesn't yet replace
any existing ad-hoc loaders.
This patch just tightens up console handling in BasOpenSimServer
and removes (or redirects) a couple of messages that were being issued
using Console.Writeline.
* Added shell of new Python scripting engine. Similar in design to the one used by Rex, but will be structured at a region rather than object level, also is a region module.
* It's slightly hackish in that it will not work with another client type, but LoadBalancerPlugin is very dependent on the LL Architecture and is unlikely to be useful with a different protocol anyway.
Roger Kirkman