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Deadly Morph
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Posted - 2007.09.01 11:28:00 -
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ive got nothing to do i woke up and i wanna play EVE
why do they have DT?
Im staring at the screen mindlesly~!
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Steve Holt
D00M.
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2007.09.01 11:29:00 -
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They need to feed the hamsters.
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Anson Halleck
Lost Eden
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Posted - 2007.09.01 11:30:00 -
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Becouse we need threads asking why we have DT.
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RevPrime
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Posted - 2007.09.01 11:30:00 -
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 Originally by: Steve Holt
They need to feed the hamsters.
yup
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Golden Helmet
Caldari
No way I'm going to Deep Core Mining
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Posted - 2007.09.01 11:34:00 -
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Originally by: Steve Holt
They need to feed the hamsters.
And replace the ones that died trying to run Jita. Poor, poor little things...
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Ethaet
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.09.01 11:35:00 -
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Server maintenance, hardware upgrades, replacing dead hamsters, fixing the skill training but that hits a few people every day.
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Deadly Morph
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Posted - 2007.09.01 11:36:00 -
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I got pizza
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Talon Draven
Perkone
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Posted - 2007.09.01 11:37:00 -
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they have to replenish the Veldspar that Cribba Mined...
"This is a brutal universe where your decisions and actions can severly affect yourself - as well as others." - Oveur | 2006.06.29 17:21:46
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Mashie Saldana
Hooligans Of War
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Posted - 2007.09.01 11:38:00 -
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Originally by: Deadly Morph
ive got nothing to do i woke up and i wanna play EVE
why do they have DT?
Im staring at the screen mindlesly~!
This is the answer you are looking for.
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Deadly Morph
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Posted - 2007.09.01 11:41:00 -
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Thus here is the answer...
EVE is a rather large game running on a large server cluster comprising of 2 "farms" You have your proxy servers that you directly connect to, then you have your sol servers where your session is directed too and where all your interactions are carried out at (flying around in space etc...)
We have server processes that run as services on these boxes and are constnatly generating logs and consuming resources on the box, and restarting these services clears there memory and allows us to save there generated logs.
Normally our down times in the past were 20 minutes with Tuesdays and Thursdays reserved for maintiance. But with a larger customer base the needs for maintiance has grown and we have 1 hour downtimes now Monday through Friday and stay with the normal 20 minute downtimes during the weekend.
Now why does maintiance need 1 hour you ask? For 20 minutes of every downtime we have downtime jobs that run. These jobs do everything from reseeding asteriods (there are millions of them) too cleaning up space by deleting corpses (I shed a tear everytime a corpse gets deleted Sad) to clearing out old logs, deploying outposts, and conducting statistical gathering...
While the server crunches the numbers we do not conduct any normal maintiance as we dont want to lock tables and interfere with the normal downtime jobs so our maintiance must occur outside of this 20 minute window.
Maintiance that needs to be done includes defragmenting the index's that we have on our database... (with over 150 million transactions per day that leads to quite a bit of logical fragmentation) We also delete junkyards on a constant basis... We have designed EvE so that when you get your ship blown up or you refine your ore or you delete an item in your hanger those items are not deleted but instead moved to a junkyard, in this way it allows our Customer Support staff to easily give your items back or allows us to see if something abnormal is happening.
But we need to manually delete junkyards that are more then a month old, with over 30 thousand people constantly logged in every day, with over 100 thousand unique users logged in every day those are a lot of items that are created and deleted every day that accumulate over time.
This is only a tip of the ice berg if what we do during these downtimes but we are trying to create ways to eliminate these and have maintiance done dynamicly as needed automaticly by the system.
In the words of our Cheif Operating Officer here at CCP "I want no downtimes... make it happen!"
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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2007.09.01 12:05:00 -
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Because even sweatshop employees deserve to sleep/eat one hour each day ? 
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Golden Helmet
Caldari
No way I'm going to Deep Core Mining
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Posted - 2007.09.01 12:05:00 -
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Originally by: Akita T
Because even sweatshop employees deserve to sleep/eat one hour each day ?
You win this thread
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Heartcarver
X Bane X
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Posted - 2007.09.01 12:51:00 -
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I always thought it was so that the players got at least 1 hour of sleep. That was the original goal, but they leave the forums up during downtime, and therefore people just stare at forums instead of getting food / sleep during that hour.
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Grunanca
Fusion Mercenaries
Mercenary Services
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Posted - 2007.09.01 12:59:00 -
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Server needs to cool down. Some errors are fixed by a reboot, serverside fixes can only be implemented with server down... Try running a computer for a week only using standby, never turn it off. It will run slower due to RAM being filled and some errors taht can come once in a while. After a restart the computer will run a lot smoother again.
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Adonis 4174
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Posted - 2007.09.01 13:01:00 -
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Originally by: Grunanca
Try running a computer for a week only using standby, never turn it off.
You turn off your computer? You strange man.
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Ethaet
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.09.01 17:10:00 -
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Originally by: Adonis 4174
Originally by: Grunanca
Try running a computer for a week only using standby, never turn it off.
You turn off your computer? You strange man.
QFT.
I think my current uptime is around 2 weeks, with a record of nearly 3 months.
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Jak Silverheart
Minmatar
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Posted - 2007.09.01 17:24:00 -
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There is also another reason, its because Eve-Online is like a drug and were all addicts. And CCP likes to take it away 1 hour a day just to remind us who's the boss, so we crave our "drug" more. And they Rinse and Repeat this cycle daily.
Originally by: Scordite
Who was it that said that flying minmatar is kinda like going down a flight of stairs on an office chair while firing an uzi?
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Jinx Barker
GFB Scientific
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Posted - 2007.09.01 17:25:00 -
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Originally by: Adonis 4174
Originally by: Grunanca
Try running a computer for a week only using standby, never turn it off.
You turn off your computer? You strange man.
He he he.... my iMac so far has been up and running for 6 months, never switched off.
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An Anarchyyt
Gallente
Federal Navy Academy
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Posted - 2007.09.01 17:27:00 -
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Originally by: Jinx Barker
He he he.... my iMac so far has been up and running for 6 months, never switched off.
I love my Macs. But iMac.....yeaaaaaaaaaa
Originally by: CCP Wrangler
Second, a gentile is a non jewish person
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Arana Tellen
Gallente
The Blackguard Wolves
Knights Of the Southerncross
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Posted - 2007.09.01 17:42:00 -
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Because the slightly nutty players can take a shower?
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