Second Life Server

[Oskar Linden Linden]

Linden Lab has made some changes to the way regions handle network traffic. We need your help to test. This will help us insure that regions are communicating appropriately over the network. Mainly we are concerned with agents entering via direct login, teleport, and region crossing. As well as other functions such as IMs, Voice, and Group chat.

Tomorrow, October 11th, at 4PM Pacific time (right after the server beta user group) we will conduct these tests with as many people as we have. Testing will take place on ADITI and require out of world communication we will be coordinating via IRC. This will require an IRC client connected to EFNET in the channel #sltest. If you don't know how to do that you have until tomorrow afternoon to figure it out. :-)

The details on the tests are here:

 - https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Networking_Optimization_Pile_On_Tests

I hope you can come and help us test these new changes.

__Oskar

[TankMaster Finesmith]

why not use the already established IRC channel on Freenode, #openSL?

[GuyverxCobalt]

Thats because they wanna make sure the testing is done properly with the test regions before updating the whole grid when they go to do the sim restarts.

[Oskar Linden Linden]

First off I didn't know about that channel. Secondly I wanted my own channel. :-)

__Oskar

[Perrie Juran Member]

I think I have the IRC figured out so if my schedule works out tomorrow I will try and be there.

One question, simply because I don't want  to assume, do we need to be using the official viewer or will a TPV be OK?

ETA, you mentioned in your post above testing Voice but that is not mentioned in the list of tests (#1,#2,#3) in the Wiki.

[Toysoldier Thor Member]

are these network changes related to what we discovered about sim lag during heavy sim event?

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Second-Life-Server/Increase-in-Instant-SIM-LAG-amp-Crashes-During...

 I would love to help but i do not know about this IRC stuff. is there a slurl that we can go to in adititi tomorrow at 4pm slt?

[Oskar Linden Linden]

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Perrie Juran wrote:

I think I have the IRC figured out so if my schedule works out tomorrow I will try and be there.

One question, simply because I don't want  to assume, do we need to be using the official viewer or will a TPV be OK?

ETA, you mentioned in your post above testing Voice but that is not mentioned in the list of tests (#1,#2,#3) in the Wiki.

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All viewers are ok. The more varied the better imo. It won't have any specific impact on this test.

__Oskar

[Oskar Linden Linden]

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Toysoldier Thor wrote:

are these network changes related to what we discovered about sim lag during heavy sim event?

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Second-Life-Server/Increase-in-Instant-SIM-LAG-amp-Crashes-During...

 I would love to help but i do not know about this IRC stuff. is there a slurl that we can go to in adititi tomorrow at 4pm slt?

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these changes are not related to sim lag.

as far as irc perhaps someone in this forum can help you set it up.

__Oskar

[Toysoldier Thor Member]

provide steps / details on how to use the IRC? and how to get ready to help you at 4pm tomorrow.

I might get others to help if i can get clear instructions

[WolfBaginski Bearsfoot]

Sorry, the timing clashes with my daily eyelid pinhole testing routine.