Drax Radio Hour #46

…nters. 32:40 ± Post questions for Linden in the Drax Radio 33:05 ± Week of Restarts problem mentioned. My articles on the problem leading to the Week of Restarts. 33:50 ± Drax presents SL to Rotary Group and relates some of that experience. 35:00 ± Interview with Ebbe Altberg starts. Drax relates his experience with the DK2 in Ebbe’s office. 37:50 ± Ebbe again says SL1 just does not have the engine to provide the 90 FPS needed for jitter free use… Continue reading

Second Life: Group Chat Failures

…e to send notices to their group’s users advising them of the problem. The restarts for hardware updates may have been contributing to the problem. No changes are being rolled to the chat servers this week because of the hardware update restarts. Whatever changes are being made to day ARE affecting group chat. The Madpeas group chat was down late yesterday (11/18). It is still down now (11/19) 3± PM SLT.The Firestorm group is back up now. Grid Sta… Continue reading

Second Life News 2014-45 #3

…ems only they can fix. Gary Linden suggested that those needed chat server restarts could use billing numbers for those chat server restarts. Gary Linden had made this recommendation when we were having lots of chat server stalls. Izzy Linden thinks this help via billing only works for specific issues. We did learn the Lab has no problem with non-premium members filing a Region Offline case to get a region restart. There are cases where users end… Continue reading

Second Life news 2013-39 #2

…fixes the problems. This would appear to be a CAPS problem during rolling restarts. CAPS is short for capabilities. This refers capabilities that the backend side of the system provide. The service SSA is a cap. Apparently during rolling restarts something in the system is overloading. But, that’s a guess. It is also possible that the region didn’t shut down during the restart but all the services disconnected, which is a guess too. It’s hard for… Continue reading

New Lag Problem

…nd doesn’t recover. There are a few ways to make it happen. We haven’t had restarts in a couple of weeks – things tend to get worse over time, so that may be a factor.” Theresa Tennyson commented, “There are also a number of sims that have been bogging down with unusual-looking script activity. … There are sims running at half speed with 50 ms script time and less than 1% of scripts run per pass.” Simon responded, “I’ve heard of reports like that… Continue reading

Phoenix Viewer Fixes

…wait until Tuesday when they rollout a new grid release, which essentially restarts all the regions and will vaporize your ghost. After the sim your ghost is stuck in restarts, you should be able to login. Lost Inventory This article gives you the details in recovering lost inventory: Second Life Lost Inventory and Missing Inventory Fix – Help Summary A large verity of problems is caused by a few core problems. A considerable number of these have… Continue reading

#SL Server News Week 41

…nesday’s updates started at 9:45 AM PDT, shortly after the release channel restarts completed. A setting in the Linux update caused a problem discussed later and forced an additional round of restarts. Havok Havok 2011.2 is in testing. Vincent Nacon found a problem Havok has with vehicles that use banking. A JIRA will get filed under PHYSICS since it has to do with the Havok upgrade. Blue Steel This channel did not update until Thursday. The QA pe… Continue reading

Second Life News Update Week 11

…Objects Stopping Those using llSetKeyframedMotion() have found that region restarts stop the behavior. More reports of the problem are trickling in. See: SVC-7556 – Objects with llSetKeyframedMotion() stop running after region restarts. Andrew said, “Falcon wasn’t aware of that bug. He hopes to get to fixing it soon (pathfinding is almost over). It is a bug. We’ve had some reports.” If you have experienced the problem and can reproduce it, please… Continue reading