Friday, February 29, 2008

Rolling restart over the weekend !

Source : Linden Blog - We’d planned on doing server software updates last week, but due to the discovery of a bug this slipped into this week. We took that opportunity to pull in some fixes pertaining to inventory loss, some of which take effect immediately and some of which (which address only perceived loss, not actual loss) will become active when future viewers are used.

We’re going to play the deploy “by ear”, meaning roll it out to a small number (hundreds) or simulators first before deploying to the whole grid. Here’s a rough schedule:

* Thursday AM: Rolling restart of ~500 regions [Done]
* Thursday PM: Rolling restart of ~1500 regions [Done]
* Friday/Monday (?) AM: Rolling restart of the rest of the grid

We plan on updating the regions running the Havok4 Server Beta code in parallel with this early today. Sidewinder Linden will post with an update soon.

As usual, the rolling restarts will occur in “random” order across the grid (they go by hardware arrangement rather than region arrangement). A 5 minute warning is given before each region is restarted.

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