Emergency downtime - this is not a drill
Posted Dec 27th 2006 7:06PM by Tateru Nino
Filed under: News, Linden Lab, Mixed Reality, Updates
Linden Lab reports that the grid is being taken offline for approximately one hour due to the need for emergency work on the asset servers. I'm not sure what constitutes this sort of emergency, but failing hardware would be right up there. They stress that "this is not an upgrade", so we're not sure if they mean "We're not upgrading the grid" (well, it definitely means that) or "We're not upgrading the asset servers" (We don't know if it means this).
The grid will be offline from 7am to 8am
SLT December 28 (15:00-16:00 GMT for those of you more comfortable with GMT). Everyone will be logged off the Second Life grid during the maintenance period.
Tags: asset servers, AssetServers, emergency downtime, EmergencyDowntime, maintenance, upgrade
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1. I wonder if they're bringing additional machines into the asset server cluster, which--if your information about them using a hashed system is correct--would require them to redistribute all the assets among the various component machines according to the new hash function. (In any hash table, if you expand the number of buckets, you have to re-insert all the data so the hash function for the expanded table can find it in the correct bucket.) With as many assets as there are on the Main Grid, the process could EASILY take an hour, or more...and it could be fraught with the possibility of error. But let's hope for the best.
Posted at 10:18PM on Dec 27th 2006 by Erbo Evans