lag and the deploys of the week

[Cecilia Pallis]

will these updates cause a large amount of lag a as well as items not loading very quickly? it seems that my land is extreamly laggy.

[Marigold Devin]

Which updates do you mean?  There have been no deploys this week.  I don't know yet what Oskar and the Server Team have got planned for this week, though.  Please keep your eye on his threads http://community.secondlife.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/304176

Items not loading very quickly could be viewer specific. You might need to raise your bandwith.  Are you on a busy sim?  Do you have a lot of heavily-scripted items rezzed there?  Is anyone else on your sim complaining of lag too?  

 

[Venus Petrov]

There is sim software maintenance happening this week that may mean sims could be down for more than 10 minutes.  See here:

http://status.secondlifegrid.net/2011/10/03/post1420/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SecondLifeGridStatus+%28Second+Life+Grid+Status+Updates%29

[Tara Chester]

My parcel on Mainland is pretty stable, but lately I've noticed decreased perfmance. My client and internet  connections is solid, but I can't be sure about the source of this problems. It sounds logical there is some serious stuff happening in the background.

[Nalates Urriah]

The extra upgrades are to the Linux OS. Those will have no affect on lag. They may resolve the TimeWarp issue, the simulator stalling for 30 to 60 seonds and thus logging all avatars in the regions in that simulator off.

As to the regular release channel and main channel upgrades, they should generally improve performance. There is a Fast Script upgrade that may make it to the main channel. We'll have to see.

Some upgrades add more tracking code to find a problem. Those can slow things down. Other times unexpected side effects can slow things down. But, in general each upgrade is supposed to make things better. Several hundred bugs are fixed each week.