Edited for Clarity: Sorry for the confusion. The new rules do not prohibit a group from sending more than 200 messages. They do mean that if a group has more than 200 notices stored, starting with the 201st, the group can expect those notices to be regularly removed from storage in the database.
Group messages older than 14 days or in excess of 200 can be expected to be deleted from the database (once each day.) – Katt
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As part of our ongoing effort to provide you with the highest quality Second Life experience possible…we have identified and tested an issue that should help alleviate load on the databases.
- Starting Tuesday, 6 May, 2008, all group notices that are older than 14 days will be removed from storage in the database. (Notices were previously held for 31 days.) The reason for this change is to help reduce load on the database. Note: Nearly *every* group that uses notices in Second Life will be effected by this change, which will be ongoing.
- Groups will now be limited to 200 notices *per group* each day. Older messages, over the 200th, will be regularly removed from storage in the database. There are about 135 groups we expect will be impacted by this limit. The owner of each of these groups should see a message in-world Tuesday, notifying them of the change.
Please note that in both cases this process would remove the *oldest* notices, if any. This will start on Tuesday 6 May, 2008, and is intended to help stabilize the databases.
Update 2008-05-13 21:42 : I’ve temporarily closed off comments on this blog post so that the 150-comment limit isn’t used up with questions about current asset server problems; I want to save room in the comment thread for comments relevant to this topic.
Update 2008-05-13 20:06 : the 1-rack roll is finished. Updated regions are on version 1.21.1.87495, non-updated regions are on version 1.21.1.86182.
We will be rolling out a deploy of an updated version of the Second Life server over the course of the next three days. This patched version of 1.21 includes some high-priority bug fixes; these include a fix for repeated IM-to-email messaging on login due to corrupted data, as well as a few other crucial security fixes. This is not a major upgrade of the server, and in any event no new client downloads will be needed because of it.
The rolling restart will proceed in three stages.
- Tuesday, 05/13, 7:30PM : we will do a pilot rolling restart to about 150 regions
- Wednesday, 05/14, 5:00-9:00AM : we will do a rolling restart of half of the grid
- Thursday, 05/15, 5:00-9:00AM : we will do a rolling restart of the rest of the grid
As with all rolling restarts, regions should only be down for a few minutes. If your region stays down for more than 20 minutes, it almost certainly means something went amiss; in that case, please contact support. There is no easy way to predict exactly when a given region will be restarted, and it will not be possible to delay the restart once it has been announced for your region.
Edited for Clarity: Sorry for the confusion. The new rules do not prohibit a group from sending more than 200 messages. They do mean that if a group has more than 200 notices stored, starting with the 201st, the group can expect those notices to be regularly removed from storage in the database.
Group messages older than 14 days or in excess of 200 can be expected to be deleted from the database (once each day.) – Katt
- - -
As part of our ongoing effort to provide you with the highest quality Second Life experience possible…we have identified and tested an issue that should help alleviate load on the databases.
- Starting Tuesday, 6 May, 2008, all group notices that are older than 14 days will be removed from storage in the database. (Notices were previously held for 31 days.) The reason for this change is to help reduce load on the database. Note: Nearly *every* group that uses notices in Second Life will be effected by this change, which will be ongoing.
- Groups will now be limited to 200 notices *per group* each day. Older messages, over the 200th, will be regularly removed from storage in the database. There are about 135 groups we expect will be impacted by this limit. The owner of each of these groups should see a message in-world Tuesday, notifying them of the change.
Please note that in both cases this process would remove the *oldest* notices, if any. This will start on Tuesday 6 May, 2008, and is intended to help stabilize the databases.
So, you know a lot about Second Life, right? You’ve got ideas, big ideas, and are tired of waiting around for Linden Lab to make it just so. The challenge of stabilizing, maintaining, and extending the Second Life Grid, and the dozens of services and thousands of machines it entails, excites you. If this describes you, you should check out our job listings!
Three of the prioritized positions are web developers, production operations engineers, and production operations developers, but many other openings are currently available.
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