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Originally Posted by Sofia Westwick  Its easy to tell your not a bunsiess person in SL who makes your RL living off it, This hits and affects busniess people really hard. it makes us unable to handle our customers and so on.
If LL wants a bunch of none bunsiess people in SL then they will get it by doing this and then SL will fade away. witho ut us business people SL would fade away and die as there would be nothing for you the people who are just in SL for fun. |
Actually I am a business person in
SL, I run several in fact. The Wastelands (9 sims going on 10), and a Development company. Prior to my own Development company I was a contractor for the sheep. I worked on I am Legend uphill both ways in the grid crashes. I know how utterly frustrating it is to not be able to use the grid, especially when you have deadlines. However, for all the time I have been on today, I have had no problems.
To be honest, I have a little thing that shows me sim performace (not CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-1) overall, and if I load up a group memberlist, I can actually see the sim take the hit as it loads. I'll explain my theory here in a minute.
I remember a while back one of my friends had a friends list in the several thousands of people. Then one day they just couldn't log on. After several help tickets and phone calls, it was determined that the sheer length of their friends list was preventing them from logging on and then timing out. He killed most of his list when he could log on, and bam,
SL worked. I suspect this has to do with when a sim slows down whenever an avatar teleports there, or crosses a sim line.
What I gather from friends lists is that they "ping" a user internally on the grid to see if they're on. People are constantly logging in and out, probably more often crashing, then logging back in. Every time this happens there's some data crunching as to who is online in your friends list, then notifying all your friends that you're online, etc.
I suspect the same tech is used for groups, except I've seen groups run into the thousands of members on a regular basis. With all of that group data flowing between sims, slowing stuff down, I honestly believe this is a step in the right direction to fixing the problem.
Another theory I have is that since Phillip asked congress to step in on the DOS attacks the grid has been seeing, that this is somehow involved in the DOS attacks. Shut down the service and then no more DOS attacks.
I know I bitch about the lindens on occasion, only because they seem like they're doing nothing, but I think we all need to give them some credit on identifying an issue, and sacrificing group lists, and profiles so the grid is operable. Which it has been for me.
If you guys are experiencing problems, cull down your friends list. Why do you think a noob alt seems so much better? None of that overhead.
