I just installed a greeter on my land and I noticed today that 'performance Tester' has been visiting my place frequently over the last few days.
Is there a reason for this, other than random testing?
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Jethro Stubbs
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03-02-2008 19:00
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Malia Writer
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03-02-2008 19:05
Sounds to me like that is someone's idea of a "punny" avatar name. All LL employees have the last name of Linden.
Maybe "performance Tester" just likes your place... probably uses your poseballs when you aren't looking, too.  |
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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03-02-2008 19:10
Performance Tester is probably a Linden operated bot.
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Cristalle Karami
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03-02-2008 19:11
I thought all the Tester accounts were Lindens.
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Rhaorth Antonelli
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03-02-2008 19:12
tester are linden controlled accounts
some are bots, some are people, all are used to obviously test things how do I know this? I saw a tester about a week ago, and asked a linden and that is what I was told. a tester account is linden only, just not always a person, sometimes it is a bot, running a program gathering data. (some even have that info written in the 2nd life tab) _____________________
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03-02-2008 19:12
Looks like there are 4 of them, these are Linden testers....profiles say
"This account is used by Linden Lab to perform timing and reliability tests on the main grid for various actions such as teleporting and wearing attachments. It is an automated system that will not respond to chat or IM. Statistics collected are used to monitor and improve system performance." I see em all the time at the club I'm working at, and they pop in and out at a spot near Ahern a lot. Thought it was the oddest thing until I looked at the profile lol _____________________
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Jethro Stubbs
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03-02-2008 19:12
Sounds to me like that is someone's idea of a "punny" avatar name. All LL employees have the last name of Linden. Maybe "performance Tester" just likes your place... probably uses your poseballs when you aren't looking, too. It's not just 'performance Tester', it's also performance4, performance5, performance2. I watched one pop in and then leave within 10 seconds. |
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Jethro Stubbs
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03-02-2008 19:16
Looks like there are 4 of them... Then they've all been to my land the last couple of days. |
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Usagi Musashi
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Its a Linden Labs Testing Bot.......
03-02-2008 19:29
I haveseen The Performance Tester pop in and out many times all around SL. It doesnt reply to IM or hold chats. Its a Tester Bot to measure proformance in location to measure SIM readings.
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Sindy Tsure
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03-02-2008 19:47
I get them in my place a lot.. I think it has to do with traffic - the more you have, the more likely you are to see one.
Meta mentioned that various Lindens around the world are (or soon will be?) running them from their locations so it's not just testing how good things are from next door to the machine room.. I watched one pop in and then leave within 10 seconds. A good sign that your sim is happy. I've seen them there for several minutes when the sim has a stuck download queue or some other problem.. |
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Rhaorth Antonelli
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03-02-2008 21:09
there are more than just performance testers
do a search for the name tester you will see a lot with that last name (if you search under people for tester, you will have to advance a page or 2) I was told that only lindens can use tester as a last name... sure is a lot of testers... _____________________
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Usagi Musashi
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03-02-2008 21:24
hhaha well of course silly........
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Jethro Stubbs
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03-02-2008 21:53
I think it has to do with traffic - the more you have, the more likely you are to see one. My neighbor has 15-25 campers around the clock. So that might be why they are scoping out our SIM. |
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Marianne McCann
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03-02-2008 22:25
I just installed a greeter on my land and I noticed today that 'performance Tester' has been visiting my place frequently over the last few days. Is there a reason for this, other than random testing? Performance tester is a Linden Lab owned 'bot that checks for real-world performance issues in sims on the grid. 'least dats what I was tole at one of the office hours. Mari _____________________
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Zeenith Paulse
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03-02-2008 22:35
Hm that's interesting. I've never seen one... but then again... I don't have any land... or a house... or really anything... xD
They should make them look like large mech robots (sort of like xoids or transformers) and then you will KNOW it's a tester from far off... although... that'd be kind fo scary to see a mech just walk into your jazz club... lol Talk about a mood breaker. _____________________
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03-02-2008 22:49
I wouldn't be suprised it they sic them on AR's relating to things causing lag too
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Damien1 Thorne
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03-02-2008 23:13
shoot them, i hear they taste just like chicken ;p
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Usagi Musashi
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03-02-2008 23:15
wait everything taste like chicken
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Monalisa Robbiani
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03-03-2008 00:23
The other night I had a visitor called "Computer Allen". It was a bot used by a web search engine for SL. I couldn't even take a snap because it poofed within seconds. But I loved the prim robot ava with the spinning head and the logo on the belly.
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Usagi Musashi
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03-03-2008 01:00
The other night I had a visitor called "Computer Allen". It was a bot used by a web search engine for SL. I couldn't even take a snap because it poofed within seconds. But I loved the prim robot ava with the spinning head and the logo on the belly. Thats a series of landbots run by one person......Best way to deal with that series is banned them from your land |
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IsabellaRosa Capalini
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03-03-2008 03:24
I've seen both in world, i thought at first that performance was a person, had no idea it was a bot and thought they were really rude when i said hi and they didnt reply, just turned their back to me adn stood there idly for about ten mins.. now i know why i have one dropping in on my sim from time to time
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03-03-2008 05:04
The Testers to worry about are, Bed Tester and Poseball Tester.
Well, it's one thing to monitor sims remotely and it's another to monitor sims and their affects on avatars. I'm actually reassured that they DO monitor via bot. _____________________
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Marianne McCann
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03-03-2008 06:50
Well, it's one thing to monitor sims remotely and it's another to monitor sims and their affects on avatars. I'm actually reassured that they DO monitor via bot. Likewise. If I recall, the idea was to get a closer grasp of what sim performance was from an avatar perspective on a very regular (faster than human) basis. I tink some of the stats end up in Meta's reports, but I could be wrong. Mari _____________________
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