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Arianna Cela
Dictator-in-Training
Join date: 21 Sep 2005
Posts: 60
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01-17-2007 08:45
So the thought just occured to me today that I've never really understood why you do different update methods and when I searched I didn't really find anything about, may just have missed it. So here I am asking the question of why? Why do you not do more rolling updates? They seem pretty convienient. And they generally interfere a lot less for people who have to work. Is it because you find bugs that you have to fix as you go and don't want to have to roll backwards? And this is totally not the same topic but I remember you guys trying to do a stress test a while back but not being able to get enough people, I'm thinking you have enough people now so why have you not tried another one so you know the absolute breaking point for the grid? Or else one day 40K will get on and we may all go down in flames  Sorry if that's two different questions to answer but I figure it'll spawn more downtime so it kinda of fits. |
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Kelly Linden
Linden Developer
Join date: 29 Mar 2004
Posts: 896
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01-17-2007 09:19
For your first issue, I did a blog post a while ago about exactly this topic and what we are doing in that regard. We have made steady progress but are not yet ready to do only rolling updates.
http://blog.secondlife.com/2006/08/02/anatomy-of-a-second-life-update/
Ahhh scaling (the issue you talk about in your second question) is a topic very dear to my heart! Mostly since it is all I have been working on for the last couple months. Right now is not a good time for a stress test because, honestly, I don't think we are enough ahead of the curve to handle one. Be assured though that we are continually working very hard at improving our ability to scale. Hopefully we will be at a point very soon where a stress test will be a good idea.
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