Second Life Grid Status Reports

2009-04-16 07:02am : The second-half rolling restart has begun.

2009-04-15 10:45am : The first-half rolling restart is complete.

2009-04-15 07:11am : The first-half rolling restart has begun.

2009-04-14 08:39am : The pilot rolling restart is complete, and the pilot regions are now on 1.26.2

2009-04-13 01:09pm : There were some remaining problems in 1.26.1. As such, we’ve adjusted the schedule as follows:

• Tuesday, April 14, 8-10am : The pilot regions on 1.26.1 will be restarted to deploy 1.26.2.
• Wednesday, April 15, 7-11am : Half of Second Life will be restarted to deploy 1.26.2
• Thursday, April 16, 7-11am : The remainder of Second Life will be restarted to deploy 1.26.2

2009-04-09 07:55am : the pilot rolling restart for server 1.26.1 is complete.

2009-04-09 06:56am : the pilot rolling restart for server 1.26.1 will begin in a few minutes.

2009-04-08 12:02pm : We are planning to do a pilot rolling restart of server 1.26.1 on Thursday morning, April 9, between 7 and 9am. The planned time for the full 1.26 roll has not changed.

2009-04-08 10:44am : the pilot regions have all been reverted to 1.25.6.

2009-04-08 09:44am : We will be reverting all 1.26 regions to 1.25.6. There is a bug such that if a parcel has “Object Entry” disabled, but “Create Object” enabled, people will not be able to create objects. If they edit an object that is already in the parcel, and the permissions are such that it could not now enter the parcel, it will be returned.

2009-04-08 08:47am : The pilot rolling restart is complete.

2009-04-08 07:50am : We’re working to clean up the mess created by the problem earlier in the rolling restart. Some regions may be down up to an hour.

2009-04-08 07:25am : There was a system problem during the rolling restart. It’s been started over. As a result, some of the regions will be restarted a second time, and some regions are going to stay down for 30-40 minutes. We apologize for the disruption.

2009-04-08 06:55am : The pilot roll will begin momentarily

We will be deploying server version 1.26.0 (Release Notes) to Second Life starting on April 6.  The schedule will be as follows:

• Tuesday April 7 : the central servers will receive 1.26.0.  No regions will be restarted
• Wednesday April 8, 8-10am : There will be a pilot rolling restart of ~10% of the grid
• Tuesday April 14, 7-11am : Half of the regions in Second Life will be restarted
• Wednesday Apri 15, 7-11am : The remaining regions in Second Life will be restarted

As is usual for current rolling restarts, all regions will recieve warnings starting 5 minutes before they are restarted.  Each region will be down for between a few and 10 minutes.  In rare cases, regions may be down as long as 20 or 30 minutes.  If your region stays down longer than that, please contact support.

Version 1.26.0 has been in beta test on Aditi for the last few weeks.  If you wish to look at it before the rolling restart, log into Aditi, the preview grid; Server 1.26.0 is running in the “Second Life Beta Server” regions.

Questions and discussion of this rolling retstart may be found in this post on the Release Team blog.

Update 12-16 02:24PM : We are postponing our next attempt at the server 1.25 deploy until after the holiday period, in early January.  We will make another blog post then announcing the anticipated schedule.  The current tentative dates are on the planned outages calendar.

Update 12-12 06:24PM : The previously announced reversion didn’t happen– after it was posted, we tried some different diagnostics. However, tonight starting at 8PM, all regions on 1.25.2 will be reverted to 1.24.9. The rolling restart to accomplish this will take about 1 hour to complete. Each region will be down for a few minutes, but some may be down for as long as 20 minutes. The remaining schedule for the 1.25 deploy is up in the air at the moment; we will have more information on Monday.

Update 12-12 10:58AM : We’re seeing a higher than expected load on our central database. We’re going to revert 3/4 of the pilot hosts to 1.24.9 in an attempt to diagnose this.

Update 12-11 03:52PM : We’re going to push the full roll back one day, to give the pilot roll a bit more time to “bake”.  Schedule updated below.

Update 12-10 08:49PM : The pilot roll has slipped a bit… we are currently planning it now for the evening of Thursday the 11th; schedule updated in the next update below.

Update 12-08 01:54PM : We are officially moving the date of the pilot roll to Thursday the 11th. The current schedule is:

• Thursday 12/11, 7PM-midnight : central servers and pilot roll of ~3000 regions
• Tuesday, 12/16, 5AM-9AM : rolling restart of half of Second Life
• Wednesday, 12/17, 5AM-9AM : rolling restart of the remainder of Second Life.

Update 12-05 01:08PM : We still are on the schedule below, although it is possible (likely?) that the pilot roll will slip to Wednesday or Thursday of next week, rather than being on Tuesday.

Update 11-24 05:18PM : Based on current estimates of what needs to be done given the slipped schedule for 1.25, we have to slip it a bit more. Current plans are that the pilot roll will go out on Monday, December 8, or Tuesday, December 9, and that the full rolling restart will be the mornings of Monday & Tuesday, Dec. 15-16.

Update 11-19 04:06PM : We will be reverting the pilot regions to 1.24.9 tonight starting at 5:30PM, due to an avatar animation permissions bug in 1.25.1.  After that is done, we will revert the central servers to 1.24.9.  The earliest that a new pilot roll can happen will be next Monday; the schedule has been updated below and on the calendar.  (Aside: this morning’s network problems started external to Linden Lab as general network problems.  The 1.25.1 code itself did not exacerbate the effects of the problems on us, but a flaw in a configuration change that went along with that code did.)

Update 11-19 12:55AM : The pilot rolling restart is done. About 3000 regions (just under 10% of the grid) is on 1.25.1; the rest are still on 1.24.9.

Update 11-18 04:26PM : Tonight starting at 8PM, we will be updating the central servers. When that is done (probably between 9:00 and 9:30PM), we will begin a pilot rolling restart to 3000-4000 regions. The server version to be deployed is now called 1.25.1, and is currently running on the “Second Life Beta Server” channel of the Preview Grid

Update 11-17 06:08PM : We are still trying to hammer out the server issues that we saw with the pilot roll late last week.  There will not be a pilot roll tonight; we have tenatively rescheduled it for tomorrow evening, pending the results of tomorrow’s investigations.

Update 11-14 02:54AM : We rolled out the pilot roll, and began to get reports that an LSL function used to contact external web servers was not working properly.  As a result, we’re reverting the pilot group to 1.24.  This will also require the full rolling restart to slip a week.  The dates in the title of this post and the schedule below have been updated.

Update 11-12 05:39 : because of a problem updating the central servers this morning (that led to the 20-minute login outage), we are not able to proceed with the pilot roll this evening. The anticipated schedule has been updated below.

There will be a rolling restart this and next week to deploy server 1.25.0 to Second Life. We will follow the schedule below:

• Thu, Dec 11, 7pm-midnight : deploy to central hosts, and a pilot roll to ~3000 regions.
• Tue, Dec 16, 5am-9am : half of Second Life will be restarted
• Wed, Dec 17, 5am-9am : the remainder of Second Life will be restarted.

As with all rolling restarts, each region will be restarted once during one of the three time windows for the server deploy. (There is a small possibility that the pilot roll may need to be repeated after Nov. 12.) Each region will be down for ~5min. If your region stays down for more than 20min, please contact support. All regions will receive warnings of the impending restart beginning 5 minutes before they go down.

If you are interested in what is fixed/new in this release, please see the release notes for 1.25.

Server version 1.25 is currently available on the “Second Life Beta Server” channel of aditi, the preview grid.

There is a forum thread for discussion of this rolling restart; follow-up and discussion may occur there. There is also a general forum for server deploys and server release beta testing.

The “Second Life Beta Server” channel of Aditi, the Preview Grid now has Server Version 1.25.0. This is the server release that is planned to be deployed to the main Second Life environment starting a week from now (although the actual deploy times have yet to be finalized). Release notes for this version can be found on this page on the Second Life Wiki.

For more information about beta testing upcoming server releases in general, please see this post on the main blog. If you are interested in verifying that your objects or scripts will work with the new version, if you want to verify that a fix or new feature is working properly, or if you are interested in getting a look at the next version, please drop by and check things out.

There is a thread in the Second Life forum for discussing beta testing of this upcoming server release. There is also a thread for general discussion of server release beta testing.

Update 2008-10-02 08:43am : the rolling restart is now complete.

Update 2008-10-02 05:18am : the second-half rolling restart has begun.

Update 2008-10-01 07:39am : the first-half rolling restart is complete.

Update 2008-10-01 05:08am : the first-half rolling restart has begun. This morning, odd numbered hosts are being restarted.

Update 2008-09-30 08:55pm : the pilot deploy to ~3000 regions is complete.

There will be a rolling restart to deploy server version 1.24.7 to Second Life this week. 1.24.7 is currently deployed to the “Second Life Beta Server” channel of the Preview Grid. The changes in this version may be found on the Second Life Beta Server Release Notes page on our public wiki.

Each region will be restarted but once, and should only remain down for 5-10 minutes. If your region stays down for more than 20 minutes, please contact support.

We will follow our usual three-stage deploy with this rolling restart. The current anticipated schedule for the deploy is:

• Tuesday, Sep 30, 8:00-10:00PM: A pilot group of ~3000 regions will be restarted.
• Wednesday, Oct 1, 5:00-9:00AM: Half of Second Life will be restarted.
• Thursday, Oct 2, 5:00-9:00AM: The rest of Second Life will be restarted.

Discussion of this rolling restart will be held in this thread on the Second Life forums.

For more information, see this post on the main blog.

The version to be deployed is currently on the “Second Life Beta Server” channel of the Preview Grid (Aditi).

For more information, please see this post on the public blog.

On Wednesday, 05/28, we will refresh the user and inventory databases on Aditi, the public test and preview grid used for Second Life. The grid will have a copy of the main Second Life database from around Wednesday, May 21. All accounts that were created by then will be available on Aditi. In addition, a snapshot of your inventory as it existed on that day will be the inventory you have when you log into Aditi. The last database refresh for Aditi was several months ago; any changes you’ve made to your Aditi inventory since then will be lost and overwritten with the copy of your inventory from the main Second Life service.

The refresh will occur starting at 1:30PM PDT on 05/28, and will take 30-60 minutes. Aditi will be offline during this refresh.

None of these changes will affect any accounts in the production Second Life world.