Second Life Saturday grid failure
by Tateru Nino 
Apr 12th 2008 at 10:30AM
Filed under: Bugs, News items, Second Life
The grid woes seem to be continuing. At present most of Second Life's systems appear to be malfunctioning. Teleports seem to be broken in most regions, sim border crossings have become problematic and asset systems are showing very low responsiveness (if any).
Linden Lab additionally reports that login systems appear to be erratic as well. Login concurrency is falling either due to an inability for users to log in, or due to inworld problems once they are there. Perhaps both. This is a repeat of similar problems over the last 8-10 hours. Perhaps catching up with a good book might be in order.
We are assured that the problem is being investigated. Again.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Prospero Linden said on 11:38AM 4-12-2008
We believe that all the immediate problems are fixed right now. We had three unrelated problems nail us at once. There was a routing problem to about 300 regions (about 1.5% of Second Life), which has now been fixed; that was the source of the teleport problems. One of our inventory databases had trouble, and we swapped in a hot backup; that was the source of the login troubles, which have now been resolved. Finally, we had some other network infrastructure problems (related to nameservice) that has also been fixed. At the moment, everything appears to be working well. Please see the blog entries on the Second Life blog for more information about these issues: http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/04/11/failed-teleports-and-region-crossings/ , http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/04/11/more-database-unpleasantness/
Some of the network infrastructure work we've been doing recently is to mimize the impact of an upcoming power outage at one of the data centers that hosts our machines : http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/04/11/maintenance-events-scheduled-13-16-april/
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Tateru Nino said on 11:40AM 4-12-2008
It's great to get that level of detail back. It's very pleasant to get a picture of what went wrong underneath that caused the visible symptoms.
Miles Beck said on 8:58AM 4-13-2008
Unfortunately, there have been several reports of ghost prims. This seems to have increased AFTER the blog indicated that the grid's problems had been resolved. Because this results in the loss of non-copy items, it's a significant problem.
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Tateru Nino said on 9:04AM 4-13-2008
Certainly there were signs of additional failures after the above was resolved.