[sldev] Grid redundancy in face of disaster (Re: Navigations and Landmark Project)

[Jason Giglio]

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Dale Mahalko wrote:
> Sims are currently assigned to run only from a specific machine in a
> specific colo at a specific network address, but they do not have to
> be like that. Any server is capable of running any simstate, and if
> storage of simstates is decentalized across the country then a sim can
> be run from any colo if a recent copy of the simstate is available.

What makes you think that?  That's not how it is at all.  The pools are
broken up by sim class and coloc.  Other than that sims migrate around
to spare boxes all the time.


> If powered-down reserve servers are permitted to exist in colos around
> the country, a local earthquake, fire, flood, hurricane, etc, need not
> take out large portions of SL. If LL's main sim facility goes down in
> California due to a quake, start all those sims up again in Texas and
> Chicago and Miami on the reserve servers.

I think the only reason simulators are tied to colocs right now is to
prevent them migrating over the slower internet links unnecessarily.

Sorry you wrote so many words based on false assumptions. :)

- -Jason
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