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Strange goings on in the Second Life grid

Filed under: Bugs, News items, Second Life

Throughout Thursday, Second Life users report that the whole grid was acting a little oddly - and the statistics we have bear that out. Starting just after midnight, however, something else odd started to happen.

From about 12:30 PM SLT (US Pacific) group and profile information began to load inconsistently along with other "random but inconsistent phenomena". It's nothing people can put their finger on, specifically, but given the day's concurrency curves, it's obviously having a significant impact on Second Life users.

There are signs that network communications across one of the grid backbones may be part of the problem - statistical feeds stalled completely between 1:50AM SLT and 2:05AM SLT (and when they returned were running as much as ten minutes behind).

No word from Linden Lab about the troubles at this stage. Perhaps they think it's not severe enough to warrant a notice, or it's below the radar for their monitoring systems.

[Update: 5:00AM SLT - Reports suggest that whatever the weirdness is, it's easing and things are pretty much back to normal]

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