Asset Servers stay where they are.
April 2, 2008 12:43 pm
Our cluster of Isilon asset servers are not going away with this new release. We are not adding distributed databases on the simulator hosts. We’re adding small distributed web services in front of our central *database*, which is different from the central asset servers and different from distributed databases on sim hosts. This would allow requests to the database to be cached more coherently.
The current architecture will begin to hit the limit in terms of scalability and this is a large effort to try to maintain that, to bring better experience to the residents. Linden Lab has no incentive to make the resident experience worse, so I don’t really understand how that could be derived from what our deploy notes say. Please help spread the word that there are no malicious intents here.
This is what Tess Linden says in an e-mail to Mr. Loki Popinjay. Still, Jopsy Pendragon will have to update his in-world construction of the Second Life server system. Maybe the Lindens can help him keep it up to date?
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“This would allow requests to the database to be cached more coherently.”
Oh my…. and here’s me reading “..to be crashed more…”
*smiles gently* Who was that again that said we always believe what we fear most? ;)
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