Raul Crimson’s experiences in Second Life®
OMG!!! The Service Quality Metrics!!!
Yesterday, Meta Linden posted the Service Quality Metrics of November 2007 in a post in the Official Linden Blog. Meta did an analysis of the data (not really self-critic), but i’d like to do mine. Of course, i’m not an expert in networked systems, just a customer of Linden Lab, but even being just this i think i can have my opinion (or maybe because i’m this, someone who pays Linden Lab).
Let’s see first some of this SQM graphs by Linden Lab:
First, i’d like to comment the Outage Graph, the first one.
Since the start of the Het-Grid project the planned outage is getting down (good thing) but the unplanned one is getting really high, specially in July, August and November. With unplanned time loss percentage arriving sometimes to almost 2% i think this Het-Grid is not working as good as it was supposed to work. It seems more than Linden Lab is replacing Planned for Unplanned outage. And this is BAD!
About the second graph, the Viewer Sessions Crashed one. As you can see the percentage of Viewer Session Crashed is… OMFG!!! from 21 to 24%!!!! so almost 1/4 of the started sessions crash!!!! (well, not far from reality, 1/4 of my sessions crash normally)
Is Second Life a Beta??? Well with this level of crashes it seems a Beta. I presume this graph talks about the “normal” viewer, not the First Look Windlight or the Havoc Beta one (is quite normal this other viewers crash, they are clearly beta releases).
Linden Lab is getting better on some things like communication with the residents (specially good communication about the “Quick Time Exploid” problem), but they need to work in stability and performance more, much more.
3rd Party Viewers… wants the Lab to take the control back?
about 4 months ago - 1 comment
Before i start writing i should say i’m an Emerald Viewer user and i’m a user for many reasons, some of them are:
Client built AO
Radar
Temporary texture uploads (possible the best feature)
Clothing-layer protection
Animations window (with individual control over them)
Lots of precharged Windlight presets
Easy access to some graphic settings: Windlight preset, Drawing distance, number of particles…
Lot of [...]
Ramblings about SL6B and the vision on Linden Lab team
about 8 months ago - 2 comments
Today was the opening of SL6B (Second Life 6th Birthday) celebration with a speech of Philip Linden, the founder and creator of what Second Life is (well, actually himself and his team). The picture above was taken during that speech. Just after the speech i started to think about how residents see Linden Lab and [...]
Upcoming changes for Adult Content (the Linden press conference)
about 10 months ago - 4 comments
Last May 1st Linden Lab organized an Inworld Press Conference about the upcoming changes on Adult Content in Second Life. Sadly was impossible for me to attend for some reasons, but Pete Linden was so kind to send a link with a transcription of the conference.
The speakers were Cyn, Ken and Jack Linden. I think [...]
The situation of Adult content in the future Second Life®
about 12 months ago - 9 comments
Some days ago Cyn Linden published in a post in the new Second Life Blogs some information about the projects of Linden Lab® regarding “adult content” in Second Life.
Is better you take a look at it, but is a bit confusing… anyway it seems is more a declaration than a project. For what i understood [...]
“Is not a Monopoly!” Ok… but smells like it.
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
Last January 22nd Linden Lab organized a press conference about the “integration” of XStreet SL and OnRez in Linden Lab. I was there and i think it was interesting, even what they said can be read in their press release. I wrote a post about this issue some days ago to.
Basically they said is a [...]
Linden Lab is playing Monopoly?: XStreetSL and OnRez now owned by Linden Lab
about 1 year ago - 4 comments
Well, it seems some Lindens have been playing Monopoly a lot lately…
As you can see in this post on the Official Linden Blog, Linden Lab has bought XStreetSL and OnRez, the two online marketplaces for SL stuff (clothing, avatars, houses, almost anything…), having this way the practical monopoly over multibrand online web-based distribution of SLgoods [...]
The Incredible Shrinking Land
about 1 year ago - 5 comments
Second Life Map, originally uploaded by Nexeus Fatale.
Today was taking a look at the Economic Statistics in the Second Life Web and saw the negative tendency in Resident Owned Islands (or Private Islands) keep going.
Islands Added
Month
Islands Owned
(End of Month)
Islands Added
(During Month)
December 2008 – MTD
23104
-1458
November 2008
24562
-1977
This means around 12% of the private islands disappeared in the [...]
Customers or citizens of a benevolent dictatorship?
about 1 year ago - 16 comments
Sometimes, in the past, i protested for some comments of Philip Linden, the founder of Second Life. Most of the times i though he was having a wrong idea about the community of residents. Anyway, although all that M Linden is making me miss Philip badly. And we are having M for the last six [...]
Places to visit in Second Life #11: Nautilus
about 1 year ago - No comments
I’ve been visiting Nautilus lately, is one of the “themed” areas built by the LDPW (Linden Department of Public Works), like Bay City, and as Bay City is not only one sim (region) is a bit group of them, as you can see in this map:
The theme this time is some like “Atlantis”, partially a [...]
Letter from Santa Claus
about 1 year ago - No comments
Today just recieved this letter from Santa!!! I’m so excited!!!
Wanted to be sure about the gift from Santa this next Christmas… but well, it seems there will be some problems with it.
Anyway, i’m sure Santa will find the perfect gift even if the one i asked for is not “available” anymore.
Disclaimer: [...]
about 2 years ago
I did not need these metrics to know that I am always crashing.;)) As I wrote on my blog too, there is no single day that I can start and log off normally.
That is…what is normal by Linden Lab?;))
about 2 years ago
I’m not surprised at the unplanned downtime (in fact I’m surprised its as low as 2%) but the crashes surprised me. I hardly ever get any viewer crashes since I upgraded memory on my machine. I wonder if this just means that 24% of users are using a computer that isn’t actually powerful enough to handle SL properly? I think theres a massive difference between LL’s stated minimum specs are, and what actually works.
about 2 years ago
I think is important to know that graphs. For a moment i thought that was a problem of my system, but now i see is quite general. As Karl says, the specs by LL are surely “undertaken”, not only the minimum, my system is over the standard specs and crashes often.
about 2 years ago
Ooooh!!! You have music!!!!
about 2 years ago
He he he, yeah, just added it. Like it?
about 2 years ago
Yes, I love it!! Though it made me jump the first time LOL