Class 4 or Class 5?

Is there any way to tell which Class server a Mainland sim is running?

I'm afraid I can't answer this for you,but I am bumping it because I was wondering the same thing the other day.

Hey Hard,


To quote a Linden (this information was received when I was part of Live Help and reconfirmed quite recently).....

"If you go to Help/About Secondlife you'll see simXXXX.agni.lindenlab.com......"

"Anything below 2150 is class 4, anything above is class 5."

The number corresponding with the XXXX above of course

~B

Thanks Bellissa!

Some of the very old Class 3s are now 5s as well.

why would it matter anyway?

I heard all the 3's got upgraded last year.

Mainland's sometimes easy, if you look at the map.. New continents and the western 1/2 (or so) of the old southern continent are class 5, most everything else is class 4.

Which sim are you looking at?

Actually Meade, you can never guarantee what type server a sim will be on simply because at a reset of the sim, sim crashes etc, rolling restart and such, when the sims come back online they automatically go to the next available server. What type of server that may be is not taken into consideration.


~B

Can you actually see any proof in the difference of these class sims? I don't know I think it's all the same thing. Just another ploy to pull more money from residents?

There's a slight difference in script performance for a class 5 sim vs a class 4.

To be honest, no sim runs well if the residents don't treat it well. You will, and do, have atrociously bad lag on class 5 sims and a beautifully running class 4, simply because the residents who live there take care with what they do.

Never have liked people using 'class 5 sim, low lag' as an advertising ploy, it's dishonest.

Directly from the original blog on the different classes....

"From a resident perspective, the key difference is that the new machines should offer higher, more consistent sim-side performance for heavily-loaded regions, especially when there are a large number of scripts running. LSL performance should be quite a bit higher, although we won’t know by exactly how much until Class 5 has been running in production for a while. More generally, the new servers have some future-proofing features for us, and use less electricity than previous generations."

~B

That's not true.. A sim may indeed end up on a different phsical server after a restart but it will always go to a server of the same class. Unless a Linden explicitly tells the sim to move to a different class (which rarely happens, unless you pay them) it will _always_ restart on the same hardware class. Always.


A big part of the bit where high-script environments are better on class 5 servers is that they have 4GB of memory and the class 4 servers only have 2GB..

http://blog.secondlife.com/2006/10/16/looking-forward-to-class-5/