At 2:33 PM SLT today with 27,426 residents online, the Second Life grid began to exhibit signs of database overload. These symptoms generally include failure to rez objects, avatars not appearing at logon, failed object and money transfers, failure to teleport from one location to another, Linden Dollar account balances not showing up correctly or not updating in a timely manner, notecards, profiles and group information not loading in a timely fashion (or at all).Linden Lab engineers isolated the problem, which Robin Linden called a query caching problem. We're not sure if a query result was cached that should not have been, or wasn't when it should. The database load stabilized at approximately 3:35PM with 24,351 residents online.
1. Another day, another database slowdown...
Posted at 11:41AM on Jan 30th 2007 by Erbo Evans