A lovely roundup for your Tuesday morning on the grid. Linden Lab has finally put forward some enlightening information about the recent issues with the grid, claiming a combination of a poorly-thought-through configuration for database systems.
Surely, the prolonged attack over the weekend contributed to overall system strain, but apparently it was far from the whole story. An interesting question is why, if the problem was identified as a system configuration issue 24 hours ago, didn't someone actually say so at the time? Reconfiguration work has been in progress for a full 24 hours without any word until now.
A number of simulators are still shutting down unexpectedly and for prolonged periods (apparently until Linden Lab notices and restarts them), but grid health has been much improved in the last twelve hours.
Well, okay, except for the half-hour failure of the support portal.
Oh, okay, and problems with logins, leading to a closure of the login system.
1. And once again Second Life Insider gets the news first!
I don't know why I bother with the blog anymore when there's an issue. I think Tateru has some sort of "grid problem radar" that is 10x faster than any reporting system LL has.
Posted at 1:47PM on Jul 31st 2007 by neural