Second Life Server News Week 39

…grades will happen in off hours and span over several days. Expect lots of restarts in RC’s in week 40 and in the main channel in week 41. It is hoped this is a complete fix for the TimeWarp problem. Havok 2011 Update Falcon Linden sent word that SL is going to upgrade to Havok 2011.2 for the physics engine. The advantages are mostly in the Havok Math Library. We’ll have better speed and precision. This upgrade will also make future Havok upgrades… Continue reading

Second Life 2013 in Review

…repetitive Navmesh rebuilds and Pathfinding’s parcel intelligence. Regions restarts were sometimes doing double restarts with the week 29 updates. Avastar 1.0 for Blender/Second Life is released. See: Avastar 1.0 Released. Texture Thrashing came out as problem this month. See: Second Life News 2013-30. The Experience Tools package rolled out to the main channel in week 30 passing the SSA package that remained in RC. A 50% discount for education gr… Continue reading

Second Life News Week #37

…ion numbers everywhere for simulators Some main channel regions got double restarts this morning (Tuesday). See BUG-134297. The Lindens said there is a race-condition causing the multiple restarts and they are aware of and working on it. In the Deploy thread, the RC channels are still listed by name, Blue Steel, etc. Those names are not provided to the viewers. So, for problem reporting, only the actual version number will be useful. All three cha… Continue reading

Second Life News Week #26

…ally, no. It shouldn’t be necessary. The Lindens would like it to be true, restarts not needed. But, regions do seem to run better after a restart. The Lab is always working to make restarts unnecessary. Oz points out that clearing the viewer cache is an old ‘fix it technique’ that generally is not needed and makes things slower. So, periodically one needs to update their habits. Will the viewer ever use more video RAM? They have a project in the… Continue reading

Second Life News 2018 w32

…d with the Animesh changes this week. Several people have noticed multiple restarts this morning. My home region restarted 3 times. About 45 minutes between restarts. Times are GMT 11:21, 12:30, and 13:14 (6:14 AM SLT). Viewers The default viewer is now version 5.1.7.517973. We had version 5.1.6.516459 since week #26. The new version is the maintenance version running since week #30 and in a previous form since week #29. Second Life Bugsplat Viewe… Continue reading

Second Life Bits 2018 w07

…t usually takes just a few hours. Some are experiencing way long times for restarts. Caleb Linden is looking into it. If you have specific information on a long restart, email it to Caleb or file a JIRA Bug Report and mention Caleb’s name. Interesting – There is a huge 220 page, and growing, thread in the SL Forum, How does your avatar look today? A resident by the name of Nostoll started the thread in May 2017. With about 26 posts per page that i… Continue reading

Second Life Server News 2017 w/23

…get the correct version in place. So, both Blue Steel and Le Tigre got two restarts. Lucy is certain that if Maz had had a bear it would have told him he was making a mistake… Forgoing the Bear solution the roll procedure is changing to hopefully reduce this mistakes reoccurrence possibility. Teleport Hammers When using a TP Hammer some people are getting the notice TBF TP Hammer v1.0 (Wear/Add): Too many llTeleportAgent requests. Throttled until… Continue reading

Second Life Server Week 36

…not in the package rolling to Blue Steel this week. We won’t see it attempted until the Lindens have more time to work on it. The idea was to restart regions in smaller groups. But, it is thought the service handling the restarts had a problem with that and thought restarts were failing and tried to restart regions still in the start cue. Things got confusing. Take away that the Lindens are still looking at fixing the No Caps problem…. Continue reading