Documenting the rise and rise and rise of OSGrid. Adam Frisby examines the massive growth of OSGrid, for those who don't know OSGrid is largest open virtual world where anybody can connect their own server. Essential reading..!
I thought it would be interesting to make some pretty charts
representing the data behind OSGrid.org's operations. The following
is accurate as of today, but probably wont be tommorow. Some of the
data is missing or has gaps in it - this is because during those
periods I was not able to get accurate data and decided not to
display it at all.
Servers
There are a total of 395 unique IP addresses connected to
OSGrid, each roughly corresponds to a unique physical server
hosting regions. Of these, 130 were compiled from SVN and give
version information. (265 not reporting version).
The most popular version is r9332 with 35 unique servers running
this revision. Next is a tie between the official 0.6.4 release and
r9313 with 20 unique servers each. The remainder is distributed
fairly evenly between r9307 and r9336. It is worth noting that
version information was introduced in r9307 - so we cant quite yet
see into the 60% that are running behind that version. What is
interesting to note is however than 30% of the regions on OSGrid
were updated with this revision already and indicates active
upgrades and maintainence.
Fig 1. OpenSimulator Versions on
OSGrid.org
Regions
At time of writing, there are 2,083 regions connected to OSGrid,
owned by 386 unique avatars. (Averaging 5.3 regions per avatar) on
395 unique servers. Each server hosts on average 5.2 regions, the
mode is 1, with 35% of servers hosting only a single region. The
following chart displays the average number of regions per server
over a range of values. Interestingly, this means that 1 in 7.5
users own their own region on OSGrid (compared to 1 in 600 in
Second Life®)
Fig 2. Regions per Server on OSGrid
Users
The most interesting statistics are to do with users - currently
there are 15,669 users registered on OSGrid.org. 20% of these users
have logged in in the last week, 40% in the last month (75% in the
last quarter). You can see the proportion of users who have logged
in since a certain date on the following chart.
Fig 3. User logins since specified
date
User Registrations are also fairly interesting to look at -
OSGrid benefited enormously by Linden Lab's Open Space pricing
change announcement back in last November. Since the announcement,
registrations on osgrid per day has doubled.
Fig 4. User Registrations per Day
Fig 5. Total User Registrations
It will be interesting to see if history repeats itself again
when the next set of price increases occur in June.
Assets
A final note - I cannot make any charts on the asset table
because, despite the presence of a creation date - running the
query on our 2 million assets results in database meltdown. I can
however give some quick figures on the asset table, there are
2,164,534 assets on OSGrid at present occupying a mere 65.4 GB
(well less than a percentage of the Linden Lab asset cluster). Part
of this is because unless an asset is in inventory, the central
asset servers do not care to know about it.
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