Yesterday in Second Life, Wednesday 2 January, 2008

Yesterday in Second Life there was:

• 15,624 new signups bringing the total to 11,740,141 signups.

• A peak concurrency of 55,953 at 1:45PM, and a minimum concurrency of 29,372 at 1:05AM. Median concurrency for the day was 42,142.

• The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.83 (lower is better). Not such a great day on the grid.

• One server failed in the early hours of the morning, causing users associated with that server to have difficulties creating objects or logging in.

• The rolling restart scheduled to begin between 10AM and 11AM didn't commence until approximately 1:40PM and didn't finish until 9:20PM, disrupting plans and schedules for users through most of the day.

• During the rolling restart the 1.18.6 login service failed for 40 minutes denying logins for users with any of the First Look/Windlight or Release Candidate viewers.

• An inventory server crashed at approximately 5PM and was not apparently brought back into service for nearly five hours.

Below is the day's concurrency graphed for yesterday (left), and the corresponding day from the previous week (right)

Active users reported by Linden Lab (that is, users who have logged in for more than 60 minutes in the last 60 days) is 1,427,521. Linden Lab last updated this figure on 31 Dec 2007 at 23:59. No updates for this figure so far for 2008.