Yoshiko Fazuku

Region Idling coming to Second Life - Second Life

/me keeps fingers crossed

Aliselia Aeon

What could go wrong?

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Hana

to me it actually sounds like a good idea, if it works.

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Trinity Dejavu

If it works as it says on the tin, this is a sensible good thing.

If they use this to pack more regions onto the same hardware, I can see that ending very badly. Unpredicted high load on an historically dormant region would hurt performance for everyone on the sim. I really hope they don't do this.

If you need a region to run full tilt for whatever reason, leave an avatar logged in.

Can we get a rebate on the monthly bill for all the idle time?

edit : Oh .. If someone scripts a little do-dad to measure the up down time, please please

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Sid Nagy

I'll light a candle or two.
Just in case.

Sid Nagy

I wonder, when they start to save a lot of money on the energy bill, will we get a tier discount?

Wildefire Walcott

Good thing Magic Boxes are a thing of the past then, I guess?

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Ann Otoole

Delivery systems in empty regions will fail. Breedables will die. So everyone will simply respond with unregistered bots. One per region. LL gains nothing.

Sorry guys. Good idea but yet again you failed to consult with your customers before committing resources and money to a doomed project.

Good time to be in the server hosted bot business.

LeeLee

lol their next step to improve our experience

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Hana

yay!!!



i joke, i joke! meero lovers, don't hunt me down!

Sid Nagy

The announcement says: "Region idling allows Second Life regions to relinquish some of the scripts",
Not ALL of the scripts.
So I guess the breedables will live.
On the other hand .... LL ......mmm ...... I might as well light an extra candle.

Damn, I hope I can sleep tonight with all that extra light.

Govi

So, if I were the beneficiary--say, as a nightclub operator--of such a resource grab from the other sims on our server, and suddenly you log into your sim, my great fps suddenly crumps as I am devolved to a more realistic consumption of resources...

Or, as a beneficiary of this plan, someone logs in next to your sim and looks in because their avatar happens to be facing towards your sim, my great fps crumps again...

Or, I have at least one robotic avatar modeling clothes in my sim (I forget LL's name for them, since I don't have one and don't pay attention, therefore), you never get to enjoy the benefit of this in your sim that shares the same server as my sim...

They had better have a simple to do over-ride for this, disabling it. They'll need it.

Hitomi Tiponi

Will this affect how often breedables have to eat i.e. will slowing down scripts also slow down their metabolism?

Ann Otoole

It will be random script selection. If LL favors some businesses while hurting others there will be yet another round of ugliness.

But like I said the response will be parked unregistered bots and all will proceed normally and LL gains concurrency numbers.

Trinity Dejavu

There may be updates to certain products required, this is not the end of the world and some might not be affected at all, till we get some testing done we wont know.

They are consulting with customers, that's why this is going out on a RC channel. What better way to consult than to actually put some code in the wild! Talking about something like this only acts as a precursor to testing, so STFU and lets go test things. It's a good idea.

Ann Otoole

I would love for the meeroos, horse, and other breedable systems creators to enter this conversation.

LeeLee

can't say for all but meeroos cycles run off of malveys servers, not sl

Phoebe Avro

I pay a lot of money for my region, I want all MY damn script time lol

LeeLee

the only people it benefits is LL, the rest of us just have to pick up the pieces like with all the rest of their grand experiments

Ann Otoole

It doesn't affect me until LL begins stacking even more regions per host as they end of life phase SL out and collapse their data centers to ever smaller numbers of hosts.

eta: also my neighbor in my home region already has a bartender bot running 24*7 so I especially will not be affected.

Phoebe Avro

maybe LL could set up script time trading ^^ like carbon trading lol

Trinity Dejavu

Yes, because all dancing like chicken little ever results in something positive.


No, the regions with people will benefit .. so that club/home/event/race/game/lecture/moonbase that's running on the same hardware now gets to borrow a few cycles from your empty region. Less lag for where the people are! Win !

Ann Otoole

So miss know it all like you are a linden alt, is LL going to raise the 300MB script limit or is this all smoke and mirrors to hide something else? Oh aren't the regions one to a core? Has LL finally admitted that is bogus and the aggregate load dictates performance of all regions on the host regardless of having affinity set to one core?

LeeLee

sounds good but they can't get regions running right now without the extra layer of garbage to start up, and so say my region is empty and the others on it go over their limit because mine idled, then i log in to setup my concert thats gonna happen shortly, it's gonna either not speed my region back up to normal or it's gonna slow the others down, hmmmmmmmmm lag, epic fail ftw

Hitomi Tiponi

Simon Linden has posted some answers to questions that have come up on the official forums: