Short-notice Second Life restart, Thursday 17 January

Linden Lab is obviously still having trouble with load on back-end Second Life databases (highlighted by a short burst of stability problems this-afternoon). It seems they have some potential mitigation for the issue which will be deployed as a rolling restart tomorrow afternoon.

The restart is supposed to take 6 hours from 2PM SLT (US Pacific) tomorrow, Thursday 17 January, but given the recent performance of rolling restarts, it potentially run longer than that (despite what we think is probably an already padded estimate).

This update is a non-deferrable update. Owners of private estates will not be able to delay or postpone the restart process to a more convenient time. In the absence of further information, we are expecting one of the newer scatter-pattern restarts.