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CCP Prism X
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Posted - 2008.09.24 12:52:00 -
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For those that are interested the recent delays are due to us testing architectural changes on the life environment. We need a controllable environment as close to TQ actual as possible. So we use TQ just after startup. I'm sure it's annoying now but I'm also quite sure you'll forgive us once the collected data is used to improve your experience in the future.
As a side note, because I like saying this time and again: DTs are not done for the sake of the DB. Any regular DB maintenance can be run with the DB online in this day and age.
As to the promise of now DTs, I've heard about it as an internal discussion. I do hope there are no official promises about that as the downtime is now a part of many game mechanics. I'd love to see it happen I wouldn't ever promise it in an official capacity. It's a step in the direction towards a utopian EVE and nothing is truly impossible but it's not on the near-future horizon.
P.S. If you need to report something it's your personal choice. There's no real point in telling people you reported them unless you're doing it out of spite. And the reporting system is not for that.
~ Prism X
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Posted - 2008.09.24 17:12:00 -
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 Originally by: Ethidium Bromide
so why is it there
For the same reason I restart my work- and home-station every now and then when things are getting a little sluggish. I reckon that is the same reason any other MMO server goes down, be it daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly or however far they're willing to push the performance degradation. Although they probably are doing something else as they usually also take more (like we do with our downtime jobs which are a necessary part of current game logic).
It's not as alien of a concept as many make it out to be. You wouldn't expect your windows machine to run perfectly ad infinitum. We need our servers as close to perfection as we can so we reboot them frequently. I'm quite certain that in a perfect world we could refactor most of the code so it could withstand constant uptime until the hardware fails but seeing as Microsoft is happy with me having to restart my box every now and then (ok to be fair it's not really MS, it's also all the other applications I run and how they interface with the OS.) I'm certain it's not very practical to attempt. Yes, I'm admitting that MS has larger R&D resources than us. 
But do not misconstrue me as saying that we're not trying. I'm currently delegated to a Task Force that is investigating CPU per Session increase since the Empyrean Age. We're always fighting lag on all fronts, trying to squeeze out more performance from every layer. Restarting the servers is one of our weapons and it's quite handy.
~ Prism X
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Posted - 2008.09.24 17:32:00 -
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I'm really just using the OS as an example of a complex application that the average computer user can relate to.
In hindsight I realize that I probably just made room for some heated debate as to what OS we should run on our sol servers.
~ Prism X
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Relocating your character to a cozy, secure container since 2006.
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