Second Life: Week of Restarts

…ely 7:00 AM each day next week. Each region will be subject to one or more restarts, as its host takes its turn for inspection. A five-minute warning will be broadcast for each restarting region. Additional warnings will be broadcast to regions where multiple restarts are necessary. Please be cautious about going AFK for extended periods in the middle of build sessions or handling no-copy objects, as you may miss the shutdown warnings. Please keep… Continue reading

#SL Server Update Week 47 & 48

…will see no new upgrades rolling out. This does not mean there will not be restarts. The Lindens do weekly restarts to clear minor memory leaks and others problems. Expect Tueday restarts to continue through the NCW periods. Blue Steel This update is the region crossing foundation changes from previous weeks with may be some new fixes included. Magnum The upgrade in this channel remains the same. Le Tigre This channel keeps running the release tha… Continue reading

Second Life: Week of Restarts Update

The Lab posted The Hardware Issues Behind Recent Region Restarts yesterday. This is an excellent description of the problem. If you are unfamiliar with how rack servers are setup you may want a little more explanation. The image above shows a classy looking rack server. If you have ever used a docking station with a laptop, you have an idea of the way they can work. Not all servers are so easy installed or removed from the ‘rack’. The image above… Continue reading

#SL News Update I Week 15

…. Upgrades will still require a restart. So, Tuesday and Wednesday rolling restarts are still with us. The process was going to be tested last Wednesday. For whatever reason that didn’t happen. The test is scheduled for next Wednesday. The plan is to roll out the packages to the RC’s. Once those are in place and complete, then they will re-configure the simulators to use the fly height. This process will also avoid some roll back restarts. The ide… Continue reading

#SL News Week 19

…region restarts. It does not seem to be a problem on the grid-wide rolling restarts. It is a problem for single region restarts. The Lindens think regions might normally take 15 minutes or so to cycle in adjacent regions. But, the cases being reported now are hours after a restart. The problem is happening with restarts after region crashes. While one can TP into the restarted regions and see them on the map, one cannot walk or fly across into the… Continue reading

Second Life News 2014-45 #2

…. Last Out Another odd problem is being the last one out of a region as it restarts. Some months ago the region restart process was changed to make for faster update rollouts. The restart countdown is cut short and the region restarts when it sees the last avatar leave a region. Since that change, the last avatar to leave a restarting region gets disconnected from Second Life™. BUG-5034 – If an EM restarts a region and then teleports out immediate… Continue reading