This is short but exciting… The picks for this week’s rollouts are out. The main channel will get the Region-Crossing package on Tuesday. This package is running on the Blue Steel and Le Tigre RC channels. It has apparently done well in the RC, so it gets promoted..

Unfortunately the Interest List package has not done well, creating lots of problems for users. The package created high packet loss for many resulting in avatars and other objects failing to render. This week we will see a revised version of this package return to the Magnum channel. Hopefully this one will be better.

Blue Steel is getting the Materials System Package. We still won’t be able to try it out. There is no viewer that can take advantage of the feature. There are private testing builds. But, none most SL users cannot find or get access to them. So, I see this test as more of a compatibility thing.

Le Tigre is getting the fix for the World Map problem where some regions are not showing up in search.

I am hoping to see a Materials System Viewer soon.

At today’s meeting of the Server-Scripting User Group we got little news that we did not already know. There was no rollout to the main channel. So, we have the same package running as last week and will until next Tuesday.

Wednesday the Release Candidate channels will get the packages they started out with last week: the Interest List improvements and Threaded Region-Crossing.

Server-Scripting Group 2013-4

Magnum will get the Interest List packages that was on Blue Steel and Le Tigre last week.

Blue Steel and Le Tigre will get the Region-Cross improvements that ran there two weeks ago… according to Maestro… I had to look back and see if that was right… I think the regions had the Interest List package. See: Second Life News 2013-3 or Deploys.

The changes to these packages are fixes for the problems they found running in the RC environment. Otherwise they are the same.  Continue reading →

It looks like we won’t have a rollout this Tuesday. Last week the RC rollouts had to be rolled back. That happened on Friday. Neither of the two candidates passed.

Monday is a holiday for some in the USA, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. We can include Linden Lab in that group. So, there is not much news out about exactly what went wrong.

It seems that in the Magnum RC regions the regions were falling off the World Map.

Apparently the other regions with the Interest List improvements were crashing at a high enough rate to alarm the Lindens.

Whatever, they all got rolled back. So, I assume the entire grid is running the code from the Main Release channel.

We should get some news from the Server-Scripting group meeting Tuesday.

Tuesday things were borked. I got into Second Life™ and then could not teleport to Denby for the User Group meeting. My LM did not work. I tried to open the world map to teleport to a neighboring region. The map would not show Denby, the region with the Server-Scripting meeting. I tried the Destination Guide on the web site to get neighboring region names. It too could not find Denby.

Content-Mesh Meeting 2013-3

I tried relogging. But then, I could not log back in. Grid Status finally popped up that there was a problem.  Really!?! And I gave up trying to login. Later in the day SL was working and I could login.

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We learned a bit more about Tuesday’s lag fest. It was a hardware issue in the Phoenix collocation facility. A network link and its redundant backup both failed. The Lindens got it fixed about 5PM. See my first announcement of the problem: Second Life Problems.

Rumor is Meeroos got loose in the server room and gnawed the cables.

Server Beta Meeting 2013-2

Rollouts

Wednesday the Multi-Threaded Region-Crossing code rolled out to all three RC channels. The Lindens saw a sudden uptick in problems, which was mostly server crashes. Another problems was the loss of avatar attachments after several region crossings. In some cases after a relog the attachments were still missing.

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This week we are coming off the holiday No-Change Window. Yesterday we got a rollout to the main channels and restarts. The package is a maintenance release listed as having stability improvements. I generally think that means there is new code to fixes crash bugs and to close exploits. Whatever is in it, we have it.

Server & Scripting Meeting

Release Candidates

The Lindens hoped to get two new packages into the RC channels. Andrew Linden’s Interest List improvements were one of the candidates planned for testing. Due to some last minute discoveries, that package didn’t make it to the RC channel.  Continue reading →

There is not much news yet this year. But, there is a little. First there have been no rollouts to the main channel or RC channels for two weeks because of the holidays. Maestro Linden says the Second Life™ servers have not been bad for two weeks without restarts. Things do slow, but otherwise not bad.

First Meeting of the Year – Morris, ADITI.

Coming Up

Caleb Linden is working in the Phase II Multi-Threaded Region-Crossing code. Two weeks ago a pile on test was done. Some issues were found and fixes are in progress. If things go well, the code may rollout to an AGNI RC channel next week (2). I think that is pretty impressive. But, there may be some problems so, don’t get too excited.

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