There were a number of occasions in Rosieri today that performance was less than dismal - several times it dropped to 0 fps on sim and physics before crawling back up again.
I understand that it's still stuck on a class 3 server, which the people I'd spoken to thought had all been retired.
We've been round and checked, there's nothing obvious causing the lag, no spikes in script times, no people entering or leaving the region at the times, no major increase in objects, and as it's happening to multiple people at the same time, it only leaves the server itself as being the source of the problems. I know 20,000 online users doesn't particularly help things, but it's been happening for a good few days now and at different times when there are perhaps 10,000 online.
Data Linden apparently suggested it may be the region "auto-save" making everything stop - but they do seem to be happening rather too often for that.
Are there any plans to finally retire or re-use the class 3's for something like the low prim islands, or doorstops, so those on the mainland still struggling along with sub-standard equipment will be able to get their true money's worth for the land they are paying for, with decent performance? Naturally, with land prices being out of control at the moment, even if moving to a new region was practical, it isn't financially possible.
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