Islands Rise from the Sea Floor

Kyoto Island Back Online

It’s 2:15pm in the afternoon here in Modesto, CA. The islands have been back online for a few hours now. Performance seems ok. We won’t know if all the login issues are resolved until morning, when the labs are open again in the four classes working in Second Life.

The only official word on the blog is the following:

Sluggish Logins and Asset Performance

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 at 12:10 PM PST by: Teeple Linden

Operations is addressing several aspects of in world performance which have become sluggish over the past few minutes. Symptoms include:

Slow logins, Colorless avatars, High pending download counts in various regions.

We apologize for the inconvenience and will keep you posted as the team works to resolve the traffic jam.

This message is buried under a HUGE post on the new Windlight enhanced client. We’ve got a lot of work to do in the next week on the island. We’ll see over the holiday if everything maintains and our islands stay afloat.