As Karen announced in the forums this weekend, the asset server has been having some load problems the past few days. To work on this problem, the Second Life grid will be closed to all Residents Tuesday between 8:00 and 8:30 AM SLT. During this short downtime, Operations will make changes to the asset server cluster that we expect will help with the asset server problems.
The Wednesday downtime Josh announced last week is still scheduled. We'll use that downtime - 7:00 AM to 12:00 noon SLT - to upgrade software on the grid.
Thanks for your patience as we keep working on the asset servers.
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