Rolling Restart for Half of the Grid, Friday Morning 2008-05-16
Thursday, May 15th, 2008 at 10:59 AM by: Prospero LindenUpdate: 05-16 08:30 — The rolling restart is complete.
Update: 05-16 07:58 — The rolling restart is 92% complete.
Update: 05-16 06:56 — The rolling restart is 54% complete.
Update: 05-16 06:02 — The rolling restart is 22% complete.
Update: 05-16 05:10 — The rolling restart has begun.
We are going to perform a rolling restart of half of the grid on Friday morning. This rolling restart will not include a new server deploy. This is related to work we are doing on the asset servers (specifically, we are redirecting the grid towards a backup asset server we have that we hope will be more stable; this will also allow us to do more serious work on the current asset server). To this end, we need to restart all of the simulator processes. The 1.21.1.87495 Server Deploy that completed this morning effectively did that for half of the grid, but we need to redo the half of the grid that was started on Wednesday morning.
All class 4 regions will be restarted as part of this, and a little less than half of the class 5 regions will be restarted. If you look at Help:About Second Life, you will find a line that tells you the host on which your region is running. That will say something like sim1234.agni.lindenlab.com. If the number after “sim” is less than 2133, the region you are in is a class 4 region, and will be restarted. If the number after “sim” is over 7000, the region you are in will not be restarted as a part of this rolling restart. If the number is in between 2133 and 7000, the region might be restarted.
The rolling restart will proceed between 5 and 10AM on Friday.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:06 AM
Awesome! The work on the physics is complete, now the new server code is complete, and the last big contributor to crashes (the asset servers) are going to get worked on! Two down, one to go … you rock guys and gals!
May 15th, 2008 at 11:10 AM
How is the asset data sync’d between the main and the backup one half the grid will be redirected to? Is this just service handling and the data remains on one unified database?
May 15th, 2008 at 11:39 AM
How recent is this backup asset server? Is it always in sync with the main server? Will we need to watch our object creation/script editing/etc for the next day or two? Also what happens if this backup does not work as intended? Will we be expecting SL to be down all weekend? I also wonder why these interuptions cannot be tested/replicated first?
May 15th, 2008 at 11:51 AM
@2 and @3 … the notice says that half the grid is already on the backup asset server since this mornings restarts … next question?
May 15th, 2008 at 12:03 PM
Sounds like an SL lottery
May 15th, 2008 at 12:03 PM
The two asset servers are synced. There *may* be some short delays between when you save an object and rez it again as a result of the fact that some simulators are writing to the one that has to get synced to the other, but we don’t anticipate any content loss as a result of this.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:04 PM
Very Very nice, and an intresting note about the lag-line between sims, you know, that 2-5 second or better lag as you cross sim lines…
The other day when all asset data was offline, the transition between sims was un-noticeable. Quite the difference. A thought, possibly assigning an avatar a constant asset resource, a home-sim, or one of several sims, to filter this data, instead of the intesive hand-off method we seem to be using now. It would reduce the teleport-in resource lag we see now.
Justathought…
May 15th, 2008 at 12:05 PM
@6 heh, do we ever anticipate content loss
May 15th, 2008 at 12:06 PM
Shouldn’t there be a post about this in status.secondlifegrid.net?
May 15th, 2008 at 12:12 PM
Can you confirm that “If the number after ’sim’ is less than 2133, the region you are in is a class 4 region” bit please, Prospero??
I thought that LL declared that the server class could no longer be figured out via the hostname. This is sortofa FAQ in the forums…
May 15th, 2008 at 12:13 PM
Prospero that is good news and while I am cautiously optimistic I wish you the best of luck with this fix.
Although slightly off-topic, since we never see Katt Linden anymore, I would like to ask you to carry a proposal about the blog to whoever is in charge of communications. The proposal is simply this.
Going forward, to foster more honest communication, can we start tying our REAL SL identities to these blog posts? It is frustrating to have someone making either deroggatory statements or “fanboy” posts without knowing anything about them. I’ve been a part of assorted online communities since my first “deaf baud” modem and it really helps to know that your not watching the same person take both sides of an argument or one person with multiple personality disorder arguing both sides of a point.
Yes, I know one person can have multiple avitars but at least this makes it more difficult than simply using an e-mail address to change names multiple times.
Communications, in many ways, is what SL is supposed to be about. Yet in many ways with few exceptions, it is difficult for your residents to communicate with the Lindens. Not to pick on Katt specifically, but she has either been “muzzled” for lack of a better term. Or, she was hired simply to communicate with corporations the good news and avoids us “Bad news” residents like the plague.
While many residents have created their own blog it would be nice for LL to have a resident blog where we could, after talking to a Linden, initiate a topic. That might be an ideal role for Katt to be the person who helps us initiate those topics and that communication.
Just my 2L
Mike
May 15th, 2008 at 12:15 PM
Would any of the blog authors like to clue your customers in on why the US$ auction site is down?
May 15th, 2008 at 12:22 PM
Michael@11: My sock puppets all agree with you!
May 15th, 2008 at 12:23 PM
HI, is that 2133 a reliable way to tell what is class 4 and 5? That is, are all the higher numbers class 5, or is there a mix in there? Thanks.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:48 PM
If you look at Help:About Second Life, you will find a line that tells you the host on which your region is running. That will say something like sim1234.agni.lindenlab.com.
Uh, no, there is nothing like “sim1234.agni.lindenlab.com” to be found anywhere at Help:About Second Life. What I do get is “You are at 257962.2, 280672.7, 301.7 in Queue located at . (216.82.19.207:13001)
Second Life Server 1.21.1.87495″
May 15th, 2008 at 12:50 PM
Can you confirm that “If the number after ’sim’ is less than 2133, the region you are in is a class 4 region” bit please, Prospero??
I can confirm this right now.
But this statement may not be true next week.
I thought that LL declared that the server class could no longer be figured out via the hostname. This is sortofa FAQ in the forums…
At the moment, it can be figured out, but I wouldn’t count on what I just told you applying past tomorrow.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:03 PM
I reackon Katt Linden was either fired or left Linden Lab………
No word from her for a week now, yet lots of comments for her to pick up on.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:06 PM
Does this restart have anything to do with the auctions coming to a virtual halt? I hadn’t read anything in the blog, status, or twitter abaout the auction status - maybe I missed a blog about it?
May 15th, 2008 at 1:07 PM
Yes please do the rolling restart on Fri. we don’t need to be up on the weekends.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:10 PM
When LL closed the entire grid a few days ago to apply a patch so that the asset servers would stop malfunctioning, I knew it would only get worse.
Today I have paid for 3 image uploads, and all of the images have turned out to be empty.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:20 PM
I hope after this latest update I won’t have to do the no copy rez test anymore. These days, before I rez any no-copy item of value, I first try to rez a no copy cube and if it disappears, than I know the asset server is borked and I haven’t lost anything. Came up that idea after losing a 4000L no-copy item and getting an outage notification 30 minutes after the fact.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:25 PM
I don’t suppose this transition to the backup asset has anything to do with half the prims in our sim having mysteriously vanished during restarts in the last 24 hours does it? And if so is there any plan to do a rollback, or is everyone who lost no-copy items just out of luck?
May 15th, 2008 at 1:31 PM
“Prospero Linden Says:
May 15th, 2008 at 12:50 PM
Can you confirm that “If the number after ’sim’ is less than 2133, the region you are in is a class 4 region” bit please, Prospero??
I can confirm this right now.
But this statement may not be true next week.
I thought that LL declared that the server class could no longer be figured out via the hostname. This is sortofa FAQ in the forums…
At the moment, it can be figured out, but I wouldn’t count on what I just told you applying past tomorrow.”
Come on, think more than one step ahead. Every class 4 owner will then be saying they are a class 5 and in the end be ripping ppl off on the rent they charge. Leaving the honest ppl few and far between. This is not the right way to run a business.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:32 PM
Oh dear, it’s a weekend again, don’t they happen every few days?, and yes there are asset servers failing, lag more than the usual weekday lag, now let me guess, is there some strange factor that makes more people use the grid at weekends,… why don’t LL stop trying to mess around with new features and pushing the limits and sort out the base hardware that the grid is running on, I’m sure that there are upgrades to ZX81’s these days, I have some old 486 chips somewhere if you’d like them,…
it was not possible to ,… in a timely manner,…
there is a ,… pending,…
how would it be if my bank said to LL, their servers are screwed and its not possible to transfer these funds,…
profesional,…? Mickey Mouse might be able to do it better.
yours sincerely
getting fed up with it in UK.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:34 PM
Hold on a second! If LL can’t tell the difference between a class 4 and 5 does this mean the tier fees for the class 4’s are about to go up?
May 15th, 2008 at 1:45 PM
@24 - Mickey finally went with a real transaction manager… Tuxedo.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Re: telling the difference betwen class 4 and class 5 servers, of *course* we can tell the difference. The reason we don’t want to tell you “this range of host names is class 4, this range is class 5″ is that host names can and do sometimes change. As such, any information that gets out there may go out of date, and we don’t want people relying onit. That’s the only reason I’m telling you not to rely on the host names
May 15th, 2008 at 1:50 PM
“As part of our continued effort to increase the stability and reliability of Second Life, we are happy to announce the Havok™4 project”
Rug, mickey mouse wouldnt work at linden labs since his ears probably wouldnt rezz. “Sorry Mickey your ears are missing from the database”
May 15th, 2008 at 1:53 PM
@ 16 Prospero..
Aww.. You had my hopes up there for a minute. TY for the reply anyway.
This (figuring out server class for a sim) actually comes up pretty frequently, especially by people looking to buy land that’s advertised to be on a certain class of hardware. Any tidbits you’d like to feed us on how to figure that out, aside from asking a estate manager, would always be appreciated.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:55 PM
@9 Argent, yes, you should now see the Status Report on the Rolling Restart (duplicating the post here.)
@11 Michael and @17 Very — Glad you missed me! Looks like the last time I posted in comments was Monday. Michael, you asked about logins tied to identity, rather than random ones, and more features — that’s all related to projects I’m working on. Logging in to comment on a blog is something that some would like to see here - but not all, and there are good arguments on both sides. Regardless, we’re evaluating that and many other issues. Please understand that I can’t disclose plans or timelines, but I am here working on the blog and forum.
I’m checking on the auction system.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:56 PM
Oh, shut up, Fustrated. Before you come up with any more wild inventions and bogus reasons why LL will be ripping us all off, learn to spell “frustrated” correctly first.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:59 PM
@27 Ok and how will renters be able to verify what kind as in class 4 or class 5 of a sim or estate they are renting from?
Also are there any plans to change the tier fees for class 4 estates this year?
May 15th, 2008 at 2:01 PM
/me points to http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-1554 which, among other things, asks for scripts to be able to determine server class for a sim. Vote!
May 15th, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Prospero, why doesn’t LL stop all work on new features, projects and enhancements and designate every single Linden to fix the asset servers and the memory leak in the viewer? And why aren’t “upgrades” thoroughly tested for a few months before being applied to the whole grid?
These are not rhetorical questions, by the way. I’m still hoping to get an answer from a Linden some day.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Thank you Meade.
Ron not that it is any of your business but; I am asking LL questions that will help me determine if it is wise for me to continue to invest in SL or not over the next year. It was because of the lack of information that my current investments went sour. I am ASKING ahead of time so I DON’T lose any future funds that I may invest. Just because you don’t understand where I am coming from; doesn’t give you the right to tell me to shut up. My concerns are as valid as anyones.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:08 PM
just a point: what i said about mickey (disney) going with Tuxedo was not a joke at all.
Anyway I will be very interested to see how things go with the asset servers running in parallel with real time data syncing. That will be a massive achievement if it works and i will want to know what was used to accomplish the feat.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:08 PM
Most discombobulated……has this restart anything to do with my losing all my groups which means as a builder unless I am wearing the correct group tag I can’t build on that land? And…the play music tab isnt activated together with tps seemingly blocked. Any ideas?
May 15th, 2008 at 2:14 PM
@35 … I think that just like in any job, only so many people can work on a project at one time. Having extra people sitting around waiting for something to do would hardly be productive, get more code written and QA’d or solve anything.
@25 … read more closely. You misunderstood. Also, a) the sky is NOT falling, b) the end is NOT near, and c) we were not all abducted by aliens. Sheesh the rumors and conspiracy theories are amazing in here lol.
@31 .. .a little less flame would be nice.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:18 PM
@36 … gee that’s really scarey. This is not a 401K or hedge fund, it’s a game. A sometimes very serious game, but none-the-less a game. Keep it in perspective. Invest in stocks, bonds and securities … login to SL to play a game and have fun and maybe make a little money. Remember the TOS … this could all be gone tomorrow with no recourse. That’s hardly “investment grade.”
May 15th, 2008 at 2:20 PM
@39 No the sky is not falling. However land is for sale again at around 4L$ per m. Haven’t seen it like that for a few years. The land I have been watching has been sitting there for a few days. Now that the open sim projects have opened and are selling entire regions for 75US$ per month. I fear ppl will leave SL for something cheaper. More for less. My regions and rental regions like mine have been sitting at 50% vacant for the last month. No the sky is not falling. But I am making a hard effort to make sure I am well aware of what the future is going to be. My questions may be hard hitting but I am tired of hearing what LL is taking away or changing for their benefit only. People are getting turned off and it is abundantly clear why; at least to me. Every weekend down is really bad for business. Our businesses.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:21 PM
@40 Good advice I will pass it along to Anshe Chung.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:40 PM
Boys and girls,…think, observe and make a note on your calendar everytime SL crashes or behaves strange or bad. In the past year i have almost 400 notes of bad SL behaviour. Thus,…you dont ask if you should invest money in SL,….you simply dont invest in it.
Its not a bussiness one can take seriously, because the program is too unstable. Its a nice game to pass some time, but nothing more.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:40 PM
Are others experiencing a high number of crashes, tp failures rezz errors and other SL problems over the last 2 hours or so. I have crashed about 10 times, and people I was with were also going down like flys.
Current LL theme tune : Queen : Another one bites the dust
May 15th, 2008 at 2:55 PM
@44 Gabbi: I am, since this morning, but I have yet to see anything with regards to it in the Grid Status Report page.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:58 PM
The grid is very unstable right now! Thursday, May 15, 2008 02:57:28 PM … can only stay connected for 7 min. or so… then freeze up of the client.
Mike
May 15th, 2008 at 2:58 PM
Thanks for the heads-up, LL. I had a big event scheduled at my sim for Friday, I’ll just cross my fingers that this doesn’t make the asset server any more grumpy than it has been lately, since I can’t easily reschedule.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:08 PM
Ratta-tat-tat..anybody home LL? Crashing, blocked tp’s and no word on the grid status offering any info about it…..looking for the statement “We are getting reports of……..” cos we sure is reporting the probs!
May 15th, 2008 at 3:15 PM
This seems to have broken megaprim creation in the Nicholaz client.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:00 PM
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May 15th, 2008 at 4:00 PM
I would very much appreciate an in world message about asset server/teleport/login/ etc difficulties when they occur. posting it on the login page is nice but does not do those of us who are already logged in much good.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:09 PM
@49 and to Prospero Linden, whom I hope has his lighting protection on:
This is confirmed (http://nicholaz-beresford.blogspot.com/). Server side code is clamping new prim rez to 10×10x10.
This is a Most Unhelpful single sided fiat accompli decision on Linden Labs part who has, sans discussion or announcement, removed a very potent tool from our creative pallet for no discernible benefit to the community.
We are now left scrambling over the next 12 hours or so to find a sim running the older code to create a library of useful mega prim sizes prior to the rest of the grid being rolled to the emasculated new server version.
We are deeply Not Amused.
Disappointed and Highly Annoyed In Second Life,
Mako Minogue
May 15th, 2008 at 4:28 PM
Yes, here too. constantly crashing (everyone in sim), failing tp’s etc. Called helpdesk online, but nothing is wrong according to them. But.. we keep crashing!! Something IS definitely wrong….
May 15th, 2008 at 4:35 PM
@53 …yes… some of us cannot even get the client to load let alone log on right now. SL needs an immediate change of leadership… there is no time for a “learning curve” for the new ceo who has no expertise here.. so a word from someone who has watched organizational hubris fed by foolish worshipers lead to sad endings… here we go again… fix it this weekend you guys… or forget cashing in on some hoped for ipo… it just ain’t in the cards for you.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:45 PM
I have really enjoyed Second Life, but like @54, I am increasingly concerned about whether Linden Labs even HAS a future, let alone what that future might be. On the one hand, I am thrilled that they SAY they are addressing the stability problems; on the other hand, though I could probably count the number of times I have crashed this week (with some effort), if I take it out longer than that, the number becomes virtually incalculable. And the constant sim restarts! I teach in SL, and have had three classes interrupted by restarts THIS WEEK! Get a grip, Disappointed! Investment? I don’t think so!
May 15th, 2008 at 5:00 PM
you guys shoud go back to shutting the grid down and fixin stuff that needs to be fixed properly instead of waiting to see how it goes in the grid.. Seach and things have been boked for over a week and yes no posts about the problems of course. How many regions a day have been reduced to 0 traffic for no reason? Ho many regions are running half speed and LL fails to report these issues??? How many peoples sims never recovered from the restarts and were down for over 2 hours yesterday? ?? This last week has pretty much done it for me as the past month has. been the worst time i have ever spent on Second life. I do not look foreward to more unfair downtime nor do i look foreward to a future in SL. i have been here since 2006 and have never seen such a sad display of system failures . People spend a lot of money for promotions and search and never get 1 cent back if LL destroys it because of Search being borked.
Yes I am sick and tired of it
May 15th, 2008 at 5:03 PM
Why when I shut down the viewer do I get an Internet Worm Intrusion from 63.210.157.204; Default Block Bla Trojan Horse
Translates to:
Level 3 Communications, Inc. LEVEL4-CIDR (NET-63-208-0-0-1)
63.208.0.0 - 63.215.255.255
Linden Lab LVLT-LINDE-3-63-210-156 (NET-63-210-156-0-1)
63.210.156.0 - 63.210.159.255
# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2008-05-14 19:10
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN’s WHOIS database.
Just WHAT is up with this now??????
May 15th, 2008 at 5:09 PM
For once I have to agree with the fanboy.
There is no reason to invest any further money in SL. Since this is “just a game.” There is no reason to create new content, no reason to create new textures, no reason to train noobs because since it is a game why should we take it seriously. Cincia Singh is correct, this isn’t a 401k. In fact, why shouldn’t we spend just as much time/money on other virtual worlds? Since this is “just a game” I plan on questioning DePaul University and others who spend money on multiple sims here. We should be asking Congress and State Legislatures why taxpayer money is wasted on this game and why should corporations spend money on these games.
When I thought this was “our world, our imagination,” it was worth spending several hundred dollars a month on. But Cincia Singh you have convinced me this is a foolish expenditure.
Katt as for your arguments. No, you can’t share plans that have to do with us because it might be miscontrued as someone sharing with residents things that affect them. We wouldn’t want that would we. We need to keep the pot boiling by surprising residents and not giving them ANY input into the future. As for your statement about good arguments on both sides that is simply not true. If there could be posts without LL knowing who was making the post that would make sense. But hiding LL participation from residents is the only reason for the current level of hidden ownership.
I really don’t know why I bother to post. Increasingly I see that the only way to make a point is to vote with $ not words, just like the content creators who are leaving. Honestly I can’t understand your business strategy. Other than a pyramid scheme it makes no sense from a business perspective except to use us as guinea pigs until you can sell it to someone who will make it really work…at which point all of our investment will go out the window.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:44 PM
Thank you Michael. My thoughts exactly.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:44 PM
“56 Dilbert Dilweg Says:
May 15th, 2008 at 5:00 PM
you guys shoud go back to shutting the grid down and fixin stuff that needs to be fixed properly instead of waiting to see how it goes in the grid.. ”
Many agree but LL can`t do that any more because they have to explain it to those commerical islands that are paying much much $$$$$$$$. Atleast shut the game down 2 times a months for repairs…..
May 15th, 2008 at 5:44 PM
@58. Disappiontment; I read disappiontment in your comments and so you should be and so am I.
SL could be a wonderful platform, where dreams could come true; but for reasons of many malfunctions, the Lindens have reduced it to a mere game. Thats a pitty.
As long as this program is as instable as a mentally disturbed person, you must be out of your mind to invest $1 in it.
Better idea: all paying residents, dont pay tier this month.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:59 PM
FYI (ofcourse this doesnt apply on the problems due to the 24 hr downtime rule, but when adding all the downtime together this would be an answer ……. )
FROM THE LINDEN SUPPORT PAGES !
Under certain circumstances, you may receive service credit for unscheduled downtime.
You will be eligible to receive Service Credit toward recurring service fees (e.g. monthly account fees, 90 Day account fees, annual account fees, and Land Use Fees) for Unscheduled Downtime. “Unscheduled Downtime” is an unplanned or unscheduled interruption in Service availability for a period of at least twenty-four (24) hours during which you are unable to access the Service. Unscheduled Downtime is measured from the end of the time the Service is 100% unreachable for a period of at least twenty-four (24) hours until Service is once again restored. The following are excluded from the calculation of Unscheduled Downtime: (i) scheduled maintenance downtime; (ii) problems outside of our Service (upstream providers, or your inbound connection) not affecting 100% loss to our Service; (iii) interruptions or failure of Service caused by you or your representatives (including inaccurate configuration, third-party software, abuse or over-utilization of resources, hacked servers, attacks, exploits, or server hardware failures); and (iv) causes beyond Linden Lab’s reasonable control and occurring without Linden Lab’s fault or negligence, including natural disasters, wars, terrorist acts, riots or other violent upheaval, governmental restrictions and actions, and performance failures of a third party outside Linden Lab’s control. The amount of any Service Credit will be based on the pro rata percentage of Unscheduled Downtime during your billing cycle (e.g., if there is 1 day of Unscheduled Downtime in a 30-day month for your monthly account, you will receive a Service Credit for 1/30th of your recurring service fees). Any Service Credit will be credited to you during your next billing cycle.
cosa
May 15th, 2008 at 6:01 PM
#57: Something like that happened to me almost two years ago. At that time i could actually get ahold of life help, and the guy explained to me, if i remember right, that some virus checkers will be falsely alarmed by something that is very close to a virus but not. it has to do with the texture cache, and normally you would not see that and probably related to bad asset server. there is more danger in having yahoo instant message open than anything with SL.
Let’s hope that is all it is.
On another note, i hope this restart takes care of the stupid traffic counts i am getting lately. i mean a traffic count of ZERO has to be wrong. and my person traffic counting showed a sharp rise last night, and the numbers should have reflected a doubling of traffic, but instead it was half as much as the day before.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:04 PM
YAwnnn..I’m sorry did something change.
This is getting terminally boring LL.
As hard as it is to believe, you guys are making television look entertaining again.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:07 PM
Oldbie@41: You write: “Now that the open sim projects have opened and are selling entire regions for 75US$ per month. I fear ppl will leave SL for something cheaper.” — I don’t understand how reducing the cost increases the chance that someone is going to leave it for something cheaper.
Zachary@49, Mako@52: that was explicitly stated as a reason for the last rollout, so it was already too late at 5AM this morning.
Renee@57: sounds like your security software is crying wolf. As someone who spent 20 years in the business, I’ve seen more snake oil than good software… it probably MISinterpreted some leftover packets from Linden Labs.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:14 PM
Whats going on with login failures? Is LL once again reseting accounts passworlds? is this Sept 2006 all over again?
May 15th, 2008 at 6:31 PM
@65 I obviously missed that well publicized meeting… .
It remains a very massively uncool move on LL’s part.
Mako
May 15th, 2008 at 6:43 PM
@65
The RL company I own does computer security.
Once is crying wolf - 4 times is a security problem
May 15th, 2008 at 6:45 PM
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May 15th, 2008 at 6:45 PM
Hmmm… has anyone gotten “Expired region handoff” when trying to cross sims? I am trying to get to my openspace and can’t seem to get there
May 15th, 2008 at 7:07 PM
“Your account has been disabled by Linden Lab.”??????????now what in the **** is LL doing?????? They are randomly shuttingdown accounts?
May 15th, 2008 at 7:39 PM
Oldbie@41: You write: “Now that the open sim projects have opened and are selling entire regions for 75US$ per month. I fear ppl will leave SL for something cheaper.” — I don’t understand how reducing the cost increases the chance that someone is going to leave it for something cheaper.
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You don’t understand that ppl prefer the same product only a lot cheaper?
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hmmmm lets compare shall we so you can see the bigger picture:
Second Life Grid
Any Estate Region:
Islands are priced at US$1,000 for 65,536 square meters (about 16 acres). Monthly land fees for maintenance are US$295.
(down from the $1695.00 cost not too long ago)
($295 up from the not so long ago cost of $195 per mo.)
OpenLife Grid
Region Name: Jimboo Location: 992,1004 - Openlife Grid Size: 256mx256m, 65536m2 Monthly Fee/ Tier: $75 (1st Month Included) Setup: $15 (one time included)
So for the cost of 1 (one) Island in Second Life I can buy 13 (thirteen) and still have $25 bucks left over for a pizza.
What part about that is hard to understand?
May 15th, 2008 at 7:41 PM
@117 & 123
I have to agree. Unfortunately, I get a sinking feeling of dread at the mention of the upcoming blog concerning the “issue” (read: problem of people having a widely expanded range of megaprims to use). I’ve created many, many things with the new megaprims I could never have created with the old ones, because most of the old ones are “fake” sizes, prims cut and tortured into the proportions listed in their names. Is all of that work, and the work that I fully suspect that all of these frenzied residents such as myself have done, going to be destroyed? I can’t help but stop and ponder at the well-spoken case presented by #115. You promise these things for megaprims in the future, but when? They’re right, the massive lunge for as many possible combinations of megas as we can get should be an indicator. Please don’t rip away from our fingers our now larger (pun intended) opportunity for content creation, to creation things feasibly on a scale that actually has _meaning_ for the avatar, not something we have to duck under, and not something that is too awkwardly proportioned to be aesthetically or practically functional, or too cookie-cutter similar to anything else that uses the exact same limited number of megaprim sizes. I mean think. People are actually _less_ likely to overrun borders if they are able to create custom prims over the 10m limit, than they would if they only have a range of megas with are _mostly_ over the average lot size (512-1024). Please, don’t let this upcoming blog post be a “Sorry, but the new megas have to go. Be happy with the old ones.” Especially if you _honestly_ and _truly_ plan to support megas in the future, don’t destroy everything that we have worked on and created in our short time of freedom.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:42 PM
Augh, sorry guys, for some reason when I refreshed, this came up on a different blog.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:51 PM
LL needs to either officially support mega prims or get rid.They have sat on the fence so long that now people consider them tools despite the fact they have never been endored.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:10 PM
It appears that security issues raised in this blog might not be a 1 off,there has been a simalar incident on a laptop im running that has SL running.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:36 PM
If you are crashing a lot then try a clean install to make sure the cache is not corrupted.
Also make sure your hard drive always has more than 25GB free and is frequently defragmented.
That is a couple of hints I don’t see mentioned very often.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:45 PM
Good advice ann its a shame LL does not consider with all it’s corruption issues to make a removal tool so it would clean any registry entries,files and folders and any cache files hiddens away.
May 15th, 2008 at 9:01 PM
@78: Be careful which registry entries you “clean”. I suffered for a while because I removed entries with Secondlife text in them and wound up having to reinstall directx (why? dunno) to get sl working again. So now when I say clean install I mean nothing more than deletion of the directories associated with Secondlife after uninstalling and then empty trash and the temp folder, reboot, and reinstall.
May 15th, 2008 at 9:43 PM
Outstanding
I appreciate the level of detail you’re giving us. Just telling us 1/2 the servers would be restarted would have been a little less detail that we need.
May 15th, 2008 at 9:46 PM
I don’t believe SL puts anything in the registry. What settings you see are MRU settings from MS and other housekeeping things. I think the idea is to keep the .NET MS CLR and mono CLR codebases similar–mono won’t handle those registry read/writes unless there’s a registry emulator somewhere
May 15th, 2008 at 9:55 PM
Do something about content theft. Redgrave stopped designing, minnu model will not release any more skisn. How many more shops do we have to lose before you fill finally make your DMCA promise come true?
May 15th, 2008 at 10:00 PM
To all those experiencing crashes/freezes/etc - tell me about it. It was the same yesterday afternoon. And Anne O’Toole before you start going all Infinity on me - every time I crash I clear my caches, so it isn’t cache corruption. It’s Second Stability. And I agree with the suggestion that Second Life be closed down at least twice a month for repairs. But I don’t like the chances of Linden Labs listening to us, though.
May 15th, 2008 at 10:04 PM
Secodnlife doesn’t even takes the effort to remove a texture UUID after a DMCA from a lawyer so you can bet on it that they won’t take the effort to remove megaprims as well. They are a lazy company.
“Your world, your problems”
May 15th, 2008 at 10:44 PM
I want a Yellow Icon.
May 15th, 2008 at 10:46 PM
I gope the megaprims will not be destroyed
May 15th, 2008 at 10:48 PM
I gope too.
Cup of tea anyone ?
May 15th, 2008 at 11:27 PM
There are alot of problems happening now. passwords being one of them!
May 15th, 2008 at 11:31 PM
@Verdana: That’d be lovely, I really need to stop reading blog comments. It’s given me a headache. Half of it is off-topic whining and the rest is either uninformed, or valid questions that *might* get answered. It’s like panning for gold in a fishpond…
Anyway, hope the rolling restart goes well, if it synchronises right and improves asset rez performance, I’ll be well chuffed. Otherwise, you’re gonna have even more complainers in here and I’ll need another cup of tea just to begin with.
I’ll be back on the grid later to see how it all went down. Cheers LL, keep up the good work, try to cut down on the bad work.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:32 PM
good to see more positive comments….its all part of making sl better and is inconvenient to everyone….keep the good work going guys….i would be more worried if you were doing nothing….happy to be restarted or whatever it takes….has to be for the greater good of everyone in sl
May 16th, 2008 at 12:37 AM
I have to COMPLAIN that i am able to login normally, that i do not crash neither do i freeze, that i’ve rezzed about 30 to 40 prims since some one hour or so, and that while writing this message, i am logged in twice (with my alt) so that i can adjust pose-balls neatly.
LL, i strongly suggest you take my PERSONAL complaint in account asap. Am i clear enough ?
May 16th, 2008 at 12:44 AM
crashes happen so often.i give up. secondlife is pile of problems no good
May 16th, 2008 at 12:52 AM
You promised us to be able to have our own windlight settings at our islands. Where are they?
May 16th, 2008 at 1:25 AM
be careful, Fanboy, they might beleive you
May 16th, 2008 at 1:33 AM
*Off Topic*
@85. Frip Da Bing: “I want a Yellow Icon.”
The geometric icons come from a site called gravatar. (http://www.gravatar.com)
Each time you post on this blog (and many many other places on the wen) you give your email address. The blog company (in this case wordpress) formats an automatic image call, based on your email address, The idea is a sort of “avatar for your unique email address”.. so you no longer have to register for every little blog site JUST to have a custom avatar.
Pop over to gravatar (http://www.gravatar.com) and click “Sign up now”.. it’s fast, and it’s free. You can create an account for each email address you use, or you can link several email addresses that you frequently use, to your account.
It’s pretty cool.. as silly little web toys go.
May 16th, 2008 at 1:44 AM
Can’t complain at this moment. My SL runs smoothly… 3 year old notebook. I follow Torley Linden´s video tutoral and all goes well.
Lag can easily be reduced with good graphic setting in the preferences.
My experience is that SL is becoming more stable as the hard work seems to pay off…
And this is another step towards it.
And yes we all want the same cheaper… ermm do we?
If we could really compare apples with oranges… I would agree.
However we can hardly say that OpenLife for example can be compared to SL…
I mean come on… no business will survive with almost zero revenue.
To stay alive… we all need revenues, and sooner or later also Openlife cannot keep prices like that… I am very very very sure.
Naaaa, I stick with SL.
Fast and friendly service… Very social active… many international residents… Open communication… Good webpage…
I hear all the whining, but I also see a lot of people just click things in a hurry without thinking… and whining afterwards.
Doing great Linden Lab !!
May 16th, 2008 at 1:54 AM
I agree with Linda
May 16th, 2008 at 2:07 AM
I have to complain that i agree too.
However, i have a special thought for Toybochado (comment #20). I suggest a solidarity fund so that he (or she) can get back those 30 L$ lost upon upload. As for myself, i can contribute up to 0.01€… Yet 9 persons to go and this resident will be happy again. Please donate.
ciao ciao,
Verda
May 16th, 2008 at 2:12 AM
@91 - Verdana if you love it that much then why don’t you just pack your bags and LOG IN! geez!
May 16th, 2008 at 2:17 AM
Because i logged off. Any other question ?
May 16th, 2008 at 2:43 AM
The rolling restart will proceed between 2pm and 7pm central european time on Friday. Thank you for being french. LL
May 16th, 2008 at 3:42 AM
Hey Katt, here’s something for you.
Since you’re the communications person, try wrapping your head around this:
The residents now have FIVE places to check for status updates on the grid:
- the blog
- the grid status page (on secondlifegrid)
- http://secondlife.com/status
- the twitter page
- messages inworld (random and sparse)
This is a desaster since none of them actually displays all of the available information (twitter has some info that the grid page doesn’t and vice versa).
I just thought I’d point it out to you guys and I’m pretty sure this will get ignored untill someone finds out how stupid this is in about…. hmmm… 6 months or so and will try to fix it, fail and break even more stuff while working on it.
You guys are disgusting.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:49 AM
I love how most of the comments to blog posts have absolutely nothing to do with the blog post! (sarcasm)
Katt or other Lindens, I would looove to make a suggestion - could you a) limit the number of comments one person can make to a blog post and/or b) allow people to edit their comments so if they forget something, they don’t have to make another post?
And thank you for informing us about the region restarts.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:52 AM
agrees@what a joke 103, it makes much more sense to make information available on one site only to avoid an information/misinformation jungle
communication can be pretty simple, so KIS (keep it simple), katt or KISS (keep it soo simple) me katt
May 16th, 2008 at 4:03 AM
Well it is Friday again. And well its maybe morning in pdt, which was former SLT. But well Europeans don’t count at all in here.
After April we get another nice month as it seems. Some more months like April, we won’t need anymore to discuss something here. As obviously more and more people do not log in anymore.
Thank you for restarting again and again, I would really wonder if anything would change at all.
Have all a nice day.
May 16th, 2008 at 4:24 AM
fanboy, I am ahead, my support tickets are answered before I send them, lol
May 16th, 2008 at 5:00 AM
Off-topic
Is it only me or does it happen to others too that the landingpoints of parcels don’t seem to work anymore, or one lands some 10 to 20 meters away from the parcel landingpoint?
I usually teleport to a destination using the map, via click/teleport.
May 16th, 2008 at 5:04 AM
Is it me only or have more people that the parcel landingpoints do not work anymore?
I usually enter a sim/parcel using cleick and teleport on the worldmap.
May 16th, 2008 at 5:20 AM
Re: lots and lots of places to check for grid status. The reason that the rolling restart Tue-Thu was not also on the grid status page was my fault. Please do not blame Katt for that. The reason that this</