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Second Life News 2013-2v3

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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
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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Second Life News 2013-2v2

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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
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. 

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Connecting to Second Life

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People have been having problems connecting to Second Life™ for as long as I have been using SL, probably longer. As the viewer is shifted to use more HTTP protocol services some are seeing better performance and others worse performance. Whatever the case, more use of HTTP is coming.

HTTP Library

Monty Linden has been working on the communications library used with Second Life. In general we know that work as the HTTP Library. The library is a file that contains all the code to run the HTTP communications channels for the viewer.

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Second Life News 2013-1

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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.
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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#SL News 2 Week 51

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We did get a roll to the main channel this morning. The Lab was running similar packages in all three Release Candidate channels. Blue Steel and Le Tigre had the week 49 package with additional fixes running. Magnum had the same pages with additional fixes. The Magnum package rolled to the main grid. So, we got all the fixes in the RC channels.

Content-Mesh Meeting
Content-Mesh Meeting

Sudden Massive Lag

This has been a perplexing problem for weeks. We have: BUG-355 – Increased Instant Sim Lag & Avi Crashes During Major Events – sim network issue. A serious problem is the Lindens have not been able to reproduce the problem. They can see it. But, they cannot trigger it. That makes it very hard to fix.

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#SL News Week 50

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Once again, there is no roll out to the main channel. Bugs in the release candidate channels prevented a promotion.

Blue Steel & Le Tigre

These channels will get the same package as last week, but with fixes for the found bugs.

Magnum

This channel get a slightly different package. It is the same package as is running on Blue Steel with the addition of additional bug fixes, an improved fix for the memory leak fix, and a new feature: longer animations.

Server-Scripting Dec 2012
Server-Scripting Dec 2012

In a short article I mentioned the animation change. Animation files were previously limited to 60kb. That limit has been changed server side to 120kb. The change will allow for 60 second animations that are more complicated.

A viewer change is required before we can take advantage of this server side change. No one is sure when the viewer change will hit Dev or Beta viewers. 

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