Whatever happened to:
http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/02/16/contingency-measures-to-ensure-service-as-second-life-grows/
Was it just another lie thrown out to appease the mobs?
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Saucey Barbecue
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04-11-2008 15:22
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Alicia Sautereau
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04-11-2008 15:29
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Wildefire Walcott
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04-11-2008 15:46
They fiddled with it once a week or two after making that post (some people here actually reported seeing the message when trying to log on with unverified alts), but apparently never flipped the switch again.
I can't remember where else I observed this, but they're blaming the recent grid problems on high concurrency, when there were 55-60K days a month ago when none of these issues occurred. I don't buy it. EDIT: There has been a big upsurge in resource-intensive bots lately. A simple traffic bot standing in a skybox doesn't affect the grid too much, but recently I have seen a LOT of activity from bots that spam people with notecards and spam open-enrollment groups. You get a few hundred avatars running who are IMming and dropping notes and group spamming ALL THE TIME, and there's gonna be an impact on the grid, just like with 24/7 temp-rezzers. _____________________
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Ceka Cianci
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04-11-2008 15:53
to what?
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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04-11-2008 16:56
to what? Contingency Measures to Ensure Service as Second Life Grows Friday, February 16th, 2007 at 3:04 PM by: Robin Linden Since September concurrency rates have tripled, to a peak last week of over 34,000. While we love that so many people are enjoying Second Life, there have been some challenging moments in keeping up with the growth, resulting in the now somewhat infamous message “heavy load on the database”. When this happens it usually means that the demand for transmission of data between servers is outstripping the ability of the network to support it. When the Grid is under stress, resulting in content loss and a generally poor experience, we would like to have an option less disruptive than bringing the whole Grid down. So we’ve developed a contingency plan to manage log-ins to the Grid when, in our judgment, the risk of content loss begins to outweigh the value of higher concurrency. Looking at the concurrency levels, it’s clear heaviest use is on the weekends. When you open your log-in screen and see in the upper right hand corner Grid Status: Restricted, you’ll know that only those Second Life Residents who have transacted with Linden Lab either by being a premium account holder, owning land, or purchasing currency on the LindeX, will be able to log-in. Residents who are in Second Life when this occurs will only be affected if they log-out and want to return before the grid returns to normal status. At the same time, new account registrations will be closed. We hope that we won’t have to implement this contingency plan. As you know, we have regularly improved the Grid’s ability to manage higher concurrency rates, and have comfortably doubled our capacity in recent months. If we determine, however, that we do need to limit log-ins, there will be an announcement made in-world and also on the blog. Scaling the Grid continues to be our highest priority, and over the next several months we’ll be working on the following: - additional caching systems - reducing write load on the central database by partitioning or removing data - addressing critical bottlenecks - deploying more internal ‘web services’. Beyond that we are building ambitious plans for re-architecting the Grid, so that in the future we can realize the full potential of the Second Life Grid to support millions of concurrent users. from the link in the initial post: http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/02/16/contingency-measures-to-ensure-service-as-second-life-grows/ That's what. _____________________
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Raudf Fox
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04-11-2008 17:28
If it was on any other website, I'd assume some seriousness to that blog post. But since it's posted in LL's own blog, I'm going to assume it is a joke.. on the users.
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Ceka Cianci
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04-11-2008 19:31
from the link in the initial post: http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/02/16/contingency-measures-to-ensure-service-as-second-life-grows/ That's what. I figured as much but do we have to open another browser or leave the forum and go to another site to get the question or topic completed? i mean a hacker could walk in here ask an incomplete question drop a link and how many of you would go there and hand over your ip's by clicking a link? lol I'm not saying you are a hacker but a compete topic or question would be nice. _____________________
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Viktoria Dovgal
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04-11-2008 19:38
i mean a hacker could walk in here ask an incomplete question drop a link and how many of you would go there and hand over your ip's by clicking a link? lol If there was a serious risk that opening a link from secondlife.com would melt computers and eat small children, it would be better to avoid Second Life altogether, wouldn't it? _____________________
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Distilled1 Rush
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04-11-2008 19:56
I figured as much but do we have to open another browser or leave the forum and go to another site to get the question or topic completed? i mean a hacker could walk in here ask an incomplete question drop a link and how many of you would go there and hand over your ip's by clicking a link? lol I'm not saying you are a hacker but a compete topic or question would be nice. did you read the link? its a blog.secondlife.com link.. maybe go there and then search.. window? damn I use tabs _____________________
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Ceka Cianci
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04-12-2008 13:07
If there was a serious risk that opening a link from secondlife.com would melt computers and eat small children, it would be better to avoid Second Life altogether, wouldn't it? my main point was why not just ask the question without having to leave the forum? As for the other part.. you must not know about Sept,6 2006 if you think secodnlife is so impenetrable..it was a different type of hack but a more difficult one. (not a mock link i promise lol) http://blog.secondlife.com/2006/09/08/urgent-security-announcement/ the reason people fall for mock links are because they don't think mock links can happen in big places..i suggest doing a google search on how easy they are to come a crossed because i am willing to bet you that 80% of the people that saw the link copy and pasted it without reading it well enough to spot out any typo's if there would have been any.. let alone mock links or typo links looking close enough to trick are in fact one of the easier ways for them these days..ask visa/mastercard if it can happen or ask the whitehouse or the irs..it happens everywhere..A single .net or .org or secondIife typo or in the link or actual mocking link that directs you to a page that looks like the site or stalls you from making it to the site right away with a script and you would never know..not until it was happening.. Honestly?you really looked at the link real close before going to it?or just thought to yourself..well it says blog.5econdlife.com so nothing can happen? incomplete topics or questions having to be completed by clicking on a link is one of the ways people get tricked into mock links.. i did not say the OP was a hacker or that this was a mock link they were using..i was saying it would be easy for one to walk in here using part of a question then a link and us having go to the link to find out what they are asking..something leading people to a place.. i don't mean to make a big deal about it but the way you find it funny and that it could not happen on the internet or does not happen only makes it a more valid reason to say that yes it in fact does happen more times than you think and in places you would never think it could..it's a false sense of security that catches people off guard and gets them into trouble..being more informed of something that is a risk never hurt anyone i know of yet.. i wasn't trying to be a bitch or sound like a troll i was just trying to be informative more than anything..sorry if it came out the wrong way. _____________________
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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04-12-2008 13:12
I'm not saying you are a hacker but a compete topic or question would be nice. I'm not the one that made the initial post with the link in it. I'm the one that followed the link and copied the entire blog post and pasted it in here. I follow essentially every link I see in forums.secondlife.com that seems interesting with no concern about hacking. I'm not paying for internet access and running anti-virus and anti-malware software in order to be afraid to click on links. _____________________
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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04-12-2008 13:16
Incidentally, looking at this thread in the RA forum display, I see "Whatever happened to... Saucey Barbeque"
From what I see there's no shortage of BBQ around this part of the world. I believe there's another thread around that might be relevant to the fate of BBQ, something to do with food vanishing from plates. _____________________
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Ceka Cianci
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04-12-2008 13:37
I'm not the one that made the initial post with the link in it. I'm the one that followed the link and copied the entire blog post and pasted it in here. I follow essentially every link I see in forums.secondlife.com that seems interesting with no concern about hacking. I'm not paying for internet access and running anti-virus and anti-malware software in order to be afraid to click on links. i'm sorry about that misunderstanding on my part with making it look like you were the OP..sorry about that =( and i did not mean to make this whole thing about hacking.. i guess just having to click a link to go to another page or open another browser to get the full topic and question just doesn't make sense to me is all.. they took the time to type three different sentences without even a clue of what it was about..without the link it is useless Sorry maybe it is just my time of the month and things that are not really a big deal get to me.. maybe this is why nobody comes around my house this early in the month lol really i am sorry about the mistake with making you sound like the OP. and i'm sorry to everyone for going overboard with the hacking thing..but it does happen.. i should have just said nothing at all in this thread..my apology's*bows out red faced* _____________________
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Ceera Murakami
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04-12-2008 14:07
To answer the original question, nothing. I believe they looked at the idea, and realized that 90% of the accounts that spend money every day in SL don't fit the profile for those they considered restricting it to. As a policy, it wasn't very well thought out.
For example: One person could have 12 accounts, and feed money to all of them through one account that does the purchasing (or earning) of L$. Yet they could be using all 12 accounts to buy clothes, hair, shoes and other content, or to RENT land in private sims. To restrict access only to "Payment Info Used" accounts would mean that only a tiny fraction of those whose accounts contribute to the SL economy would be able to access it. For example, all my accounts are "Payment Info On File" or "Payment Info Used". But only one account that have is used today to provide measurable income, and that is by earning the money in-world, not buying it on Lindex or anywhere else. Most of my alts have never bought a single L$, and never will. But they spend thousands of them each week, that my main account earns. Instead of the cited proposal, they opted to boost the infrastructure so it could handle the load. We regularly have peak concurrencies today that are far higher than when that post was made. There is no need for such drastic limits. _____________________
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